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- From: jferreir@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za (JD Ferreira)
- Subject: Re: Dead Seagate 296N
- Sender: news@ford.ee.up.ac.za (NetNews Daemon)
- Message-ID: <jferreir.10.715945932@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:52:12 GMT
- Lines: 45
- References: <1992Aug30.012625.10641@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Pretoria
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- In article <1992Aug30.012625.10641@ultb.isc.rit.edu> adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams) writes:
- >From: adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams)
- >Subject: Dead Seagate 296N
- >Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:26:25 GMT
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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?
- >
- > 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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- >- Derrick Williams Rochester Institute of Technology | Insert snappy -
- >- adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu Computer Science | quotation here -
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- I have a similar problem with a Seagate ST125N drive - I can't access/
- low-level format or anything the drive - The drive light just flashes a lot.
- The problem is that this drive is BRAND NEW (never used although out of the
- guarantee period). I opened up the drive and checked it - the platters spinn
- correctly but the heads just goes up and down the platters - as if looking
- for something but not finding anything.
-
- Could anybody shed some light on the problem ?
-
- Thanks David.
-