desmarai@iros14.iro.umontreal.ca (Stephane Desmarais) (08/12/88)
In article <3341@alvin.mcnc.org> drain@mcnc.org (Jerome Drain) writes: >I am having a little problem, my serial bus is messed up, I believe. When I >hold the cable in the serial bus and lift up on it, or get it in the perfect >position the drive will load, but that is cumbersome after 10 seconds, anyway >once I let it go or if the cable moves it stops loading. >[...] It is not the cable because I >have replaced the cable several times. Any help would be appreciated! >Thanks in advance. I had the same problem. I thought that the contacts were dirty, and cleaned them, but it didn't work. I endured that problem until recently, when I had to open my 64 for another reason. Well, as the 64 is open, I told myself, I'll look at the serial bus socket. And, sure enough, a good part of the solder had gone away. No wonder there was a bad contact! All that is necessary is to resolder it (or have a technician do i). Oh, by the way, I will not take the responsability if you break your 64 when you open it :-). P.S. Your posting wasn't too clear as to if you had to lift the cable near the 64 of the disk drive. I suppose the same thing could happen with the drive sockets. (In fact, you may not even have a 64. A C-16 maybe? 8^) -- Stephane M. Desmarais desmarais@iro.umontreal.ca (le Domaine Canadien) Departement d'informatique desmarais%iro.umontreal.ca@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Universite de Montreal uunet!utai!musocs!mcgill-vision!iros1!desmarais