Re: Failing Quantum/DEC DSP3107L?

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From: Julian A F Bradbury
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:00

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Neville Wilford <jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> writes
>I've recently acquired a second-user DEC DSP3107L 1GB SCSI disk.
>I think these were OEM'd for Digital by Quantum.  It is jumpered
>to spin-up on power and usually it does.  Some variable time after
>powerup there is a click sounding like head retraction and the
>drive spins down.  If powered up again immediately it refuses to
>spin up.

It's overheating or has been overheated.
Those drives do run surprisingly warm (like IBM spitfires) 
and do require some cooling, is it getting sufficient cooling?

The normal failure mode for those drives is head-pulloff,
although this takes an extremely long time.
-- 
Julian AF Bradbury            http://www.ergonite.demon.co.uk

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From: Julian A F Bradbury <julian@ergonite.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1997/01/28
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