bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben Scott) (04/14/90)
Well, I'm almost ready to give up. After two weeks of agony, I finally have a 230 watt 'baby AT' power supply with the necessary power specs to run the Priam 738 (for those of you just tuning in, I am in posession of a Priam 738 330 meg SCSI hard drive that my employer bought new for $200 with no docs and I get to try to set it up). And it still won't spin up. At this point, I get adventurous and begin trying jumper settings at random (there are two rows of 10 pins with no labels, and some spare shorting blocks haning off some of them). Still no luck. The drive just clicks when power is applied. I try hooking it up to my A-590 anyway, and the computer won't boot. So I try the following: Power up both while connected to each other, then disconnect them, reboot the 500, then reconnect the 590 and the drive while the machine is booting. Run the HDTools program, and it hangs while checking the SCSI addresses (presumably for drives on the bus). So I can't send any kind of signal to get it to spin up if that is what's necessary. I have heard that Priam has been bought by Seagate, so maybe I'll be able to get technical help someday. But for now I repeat my plea for definitive info on the Priam 738; especially jumper settings. SOMEBODY out there must have one. I have considered that the drive is faulty, but before sending it in for service I want to exhaust all possible alternatives. Thanks!! . <<<<Infinite K>>>> BTW: re my message about differing speeds between hard drives on the 500/1000 and 2000, and using as an example the 590, I KNOW the drive on the 590 is slow in it's own right; I didn't mean that. It seems to me that even the same controllers with the same drives run slower on a 500 than on a 2000, and I'm trying to find out why. Thanks anyway all those who sent mail reminding me of the slow A-590 XT drive. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ | | | Someday, I'm going to make up a clever .sig file like everyone else has... | |_____________________________________________________________________________|
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (04/14/90)
In article <3546@pikes.Colorado.EDU> bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben Scott) writes: > Well, I'm almost ready to give up. After two weeks of agony, I finally have > a 230 watt 'baby AT' power supply with the necessary power specs to run the > Priam 738 (for those of you just tuning in, I am in posession of a Priam 738 > 330 meg SCSI hard drive that my employer bought new for $200 with no docs and > I get to try to set it up). And it still won't spin up. At this point, I get > adventurous and begin trying jumper settings at random (there are two rows of > 10 pins with no labels, and some spare shorting blocks haning off some of > them. Still no luck. The drive just clicks when power is applied. Be warned that drives bought cheap are often dead or refurbs or not what you think they are. You'll probably save a bunch of time if you order some docs now. I didn't hear that Priam got bought, lately it's been Imprimis and Miniscribe. More general warning: anyone buying drives "cheap" drives via mail order should take a very defensive attitude and be very sure that they have both the options to return drives until they get one that works reliabily or get their money back. There are a lot of drives going around, some sounding very attractive. Some are good, many are generic duds, production fallout or refurbs. If it doesn't say, ASK! Oh, you might check over in the comp.periphs.scsi group for real info.. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)