uad1031@dircon.uucp (Julian Templeman) (01/05/91)
Hi.... I have a Syquest-type 45mb removable drive manufactured by Cutting Edge, which I am having trouble with, and I'd appreciate some input. It worked fine until I needed another disk. So I bought one, formatted it with the Cutting Edge Format & Test Program, and then spent a while moving files around and generally tidying up. Switch off, and next morning.... it won't boot, and hasn't since. Is this a massive coincidence, or what ? The symptoms are: put a disk in (any disk), the drive speeds up, gets up to speed, click (as the heads move in, I assume), then tries to read..... this is the point where the green light usually comes on. But now - the disk slows down to a halt, and the drive sits there with the LEDs flashing one green/five orange. Occasionally I can provoke it to give me one orange/six green instead. No mention in the manual of what these mean. I've tried the disks in another Syquest drive, and they're OK. Likewise the SCSI bus is OK, as all other devices work fine. I also reinstalled the system and finder just in case, too. Any help appreciated, as my distributor tells me it will be 4-6 weeks minimum getting it fixed; I want to be sure it's the drive before I send it off !! Thanks, julian -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Julian Templeman Baker Jardine & Associates Tel: +44-81-371-5644 London SW6 4TJ, England Fax: +44-81-371-5182 ...ukc!dircon!uad1031
knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp) (01/06/91)
In article <1991AMFri.04.12822@dircon.uucp> uad1031@dircon.uucp (Julian Templeman) writes: > >Hi.... I have a Syquest-type 45mb removable drive manufactured >by Cutting Edge, which I am having trouble with, and I'd >appreciate some input. > [...] >green light usually comes on. But now - the disk slows down to >a halt, and the drive sits there with the LEDs flashing one >green/five orange. Occasionally I can provoke it to give me >one orange/six green instead. No mention in the manual of >what these mean. Your unit is experiencing hardware trouble and needs to be sent in for repair. The blinking signals an error code output by the startup self-test routine. I have had my drive blink on me once, but it was only a glitch and powering the drive on and off once fixed it. The info above I got from MassMicro tech support (just one of the reasons why not buying the cheapest syquest-based drive has paid off for me--but that is a different story...) Edgar (knapp@cs.utexas.edu)