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Article #42441Whoa! MINISCRIBE DRIVE BLINKS S-O-S!
From: Cs471s07
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 01:19
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 01:19
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I got a drive from someone to look at because they said the drive was flaking out. I put it in my PC and checked it out. I've tried SPINRITE, DISKMANAGER, NORTON, and others, but this Hard disk does not respond. When I boot up the PC, it tells me that the drive is not responding. Then lo and behold I noticed that the drive (miniscribe ~40MB) was blinking its light. Oddly enough the sequence is ... --- ... which is SOS in morse code. Does anyone know if this message indicates a particular type of failure? That is, does it indicate a failure of the on-board electronics rather than simply a defect in the media? Can the failure be fixed? Or is the drive dead? Please reply by e-mail directly. It's too difficult to wade through 2,000 articles to find a reply... Thanks for any help you can give! Aloha!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!ames!uhccux!cs471s07 From: cs471s07@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Cs471s07) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Whoa! MINISCRIBE DRIVE BLINKS S-O-S! Message-ID: <6598@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 15 Feb 90 01:19:35 GMT References: <1990Feb9.135440.26011@cs.dal.ca> <25d30a4c.d4e@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <11641@ucsd.Edu> <15817@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <22085@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <15833@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: cs471s07@uhccux.UUCP (Cs471s07) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 17