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- From: adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams)
- Subject: Dead Seagate 296N
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.012625.10641@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:26:25 GMT
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- Last week my Seagate 296N decided that it wanted to keel over and die.
- I've had the drive for close to 5 years, and used it nearly every day
- then.
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- The drive wouldn't spin up, until I turned the platter. I figured the
- lubrication gummed up the heads and was preventing it from spinning.
- (I spun the platter via the ratchet disk on the bottom of the drive,
- not by opening it up.)
-
- However, when the hard drive spins up, it blinks the drive light
- eight times. My computer reports that it can't find the drive on the
- SCSI port, so I can't re-format it or otherwise salvage it via software
- tools.
-
- I know that hard drives have a limited lifetime, but it's a bummer
- that it only lasted 5 years wheras my other 3 MFM drives (on various
- computers) lasted 8 years and are still going strong.
-
- Is there any hope for this drive, or is it only good for an art
- project?
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- If I have to buy another SCSI drive, is Seagate a good brand, or should
- I consider a different brand?
-
- Thanks,
-
-
- Derrick
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