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Article #963Re: 2nd hard drive installed. Light stays on?????
From: allen h. lutins
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 05:05
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 05:05
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In article <1992Apr15.113000.2152@stat.appstate.edu> baughmankr@stat.appstate.edu writes:
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>I'm trying to connect a new but used hard drive (a 42 meg Seagate STS-251)
>with my other hard drive (another STS-251) in my 286 clone. [...]
>
>The problem I had at this point was the drive light staying on one or the
>other hard drives, whether I was accessing it or not.
...so what's the problem? :^) ...this is classic '286 + Seagate
MFM behavior...i've installed a few of these, & although the disks
work absolutely flawlessly (well, as flawlessly as possible for a
Seagate MFM drive :), the lights stay on. Solution? Two:
1) Mount the drive on one of the inner bays where the access light is
covered by a panel...out of sight, out of mind!
2) Easier method (thanks to Click & Clack Tappet): electrical tape mask...
need i say more?
...now if the drive ain't workin' right, that's a whole nother
story...
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