cs471s07@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Cs471s07) (02/15/90)
I got a drive from someone to look at because they said the drive was flaking out. I put it in my PC and checked it out. I've tried SPINRITE, DISKMANAGER, NORTON, and others, but this Hard disk does not respond. When I boot up the PC, it tells me that the drive is not responding. Then lo and behold I noticed that the drive (miniscribe ~40MB) was blinking its light. Oddly enough the sequence is ... --- ... which is SOS in morse code. Does anyone know if this message indicates a particular type of failure? That is, does it indicate a failure of the on-board electronics rather than simply a defect in the media? Can the failure be fixed? Or is the drive dead? Please reply by e-mail directly. It's too difficult to wade through 2,000 articles to find a reply... Thanks for any help you can give! Aloha!
keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (02/20/90)
In article <6598@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> cs471s07@uhccux.UUCP (Cs471s07) writes:
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<I got a drive from someone to look at because they said the drive was flaking
<out. I put it in my PC and checked it out.
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<Then lo and behold I noticed that the drive (miniscribe ~40MB) was blinking its
<light. Oddly enough the sequence is ... --- ... which is SOS in morse code.
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My Miniscribe documentation (for their 4053, a half-height 42 Megabyte goodie)
states that the lights will blink indicating 5 bits, not just the three you've
indicated.
kEITHe