vac159g@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Simon Cocking) (12/04/90)
I recently (6 days ago...) bought a 20M Multisoft FastDrive 100 (SCSI, which
has a Miniscribe drive installed), and have run into what physically sounds
like a serious problem. When the drive is powered up, instead of doing
what healthy little harddrives do, it makes a kind of 'chirp', (say the word
'chirp' four times and you are hearing pretty much the same noise as I am) -
it sounds quite like that of a floppy which has a read/write error. I get
the same noise when the heads try to park.
More worrying is the high pitched squeal it produces when the computer mounts
the driver and attempts to verify/whatever the disk.
Now, the diagnostic program which accompanied the drive refuses to
write to the drive in any way, reporting a SCSI.device write error 21. I
get this error even when low-level formatting. A high level format tells
me 'format failed - no sector header'.
The user manual mentions nothing regarding the SCSI.device, so I am at a
loss on this one. Help!
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