jeffp@phred.UUCP (Jeff Parke) (04/26/89)
After seeing the second replacement 40 MEG drive put in an SE/30 in a
month, and hearing about similar problems from others I work with, I
though it would be interesting to query the net about the prevalence
of this problem.
The symptoms:
The HD select light on your SE/30 (or other SE) blinks in a different-
than-normal way when you turn the unit on. You may hear a "clicking"
sound of the HD head moving once or twice. You won't hear the normal
sound of the disk spinning. You can boot the machine from a floppy after
the boot software gives up on reading the HD. HD Setup and other SCSI
software cannot find the HD at all.
The problem:
The HD is not spinning.
One "cure":
You deliver a small physical shock to the machine and the HD spins
up and everything proceeds normally. Or if it is really stuck, you warm the
computer up to 80 or 85 degrees and then it responds to a "kick start".
If you have had these kinds of problems with internal SE hard discs, please
write me directly at address below. I will summarize for the net in a few
weeks.
...uw-beaver!pilchuck!phred!jeffp {Jeff Parke}
Genie : JEFFP | DELPHI : JEFFPARKE | CIS : 71511,1512
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...uw-beaver!pilchuck!phred!jeffp {Jeff Parke}
Genie : JEFFP | DELPHI : JEFFPARKE | CIS : 71511,1512