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- From: ja@dsbc.icl.co.uk (James Allen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 3 minute `click` on ZIP drive
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 11:56:51 GMT
- Organization: ICL, Bracknell, UK
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- Greg Hope (gregh@sci-fi-bbs.zip.com.au) wrote:
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- : In article <4l0lhe$imv@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> ja@dsbc.icl.co.uk (James Allen) writes:
- : >
- : > Anyway, now that it works I am wondering why after 3 minutes of
- : > inactivity the drive suddenly makes a clicking noise. Only for a
- : > second, but very noticeable. It doesnt shut down at this point, only
- : > after the default 15 minutes, but is still worring me a little. Also,
- : > a similar clicking sound is sometimes made during copying to the
- : > drive and so I was wondering if this and the above mentioned problem
- : > is normal. Has anyone else experienced this?
-
- : James,
-
- : What it is doing is basically turning the motor off. Also, your SCSI interface
- : will, from time to time, cause the light on it to flicker.
- Oh I see. Although, someone else has told me that they hear the same
- clicking sound after 3 minutes as well. It looks like this is normal
- behaviour for the drive. You say that the motor is being turned off, but
- doesnt this occur when the drive goes into powersave mode after 15 minutes?
-
- : You have to watch when you are formatting other SCSI drives or copying from one
- : partition to another on another SCSI. You will find that the Zip locks the
- : system up now and then. To get over that, use a cron to dir any dir on the zip
- : redirecting output >NIL: and it shouldnt happen.
- Got you. Thanks, I`ll have to look out for this as I am cosidering adding
- a 2 gig SCSI drive to my system in the near future..
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