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In <1513@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, mueller@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Carl Mueller) writes:
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>I have a Miniscribe 3012 10 meg hard disk.  I had it working fine with
>a Mac system for a bit, then tonight I reworked it to go with my Amiga.
>Before I attached it to anything, I tried powering just the drive up
>to make sure it was still okay.  It wasn't!

What is 'reworking it'?

>The drive will just produce a beep-like sound (sort of a high pitched
>buzzing) for about 3 seconds, make a slight click sound as if wanting
>to spin up but deciding not to, and then it will just flash its LED
>in a repeating pattern of short-long-short-long-pause.
>
>Does anyone know what this means?  Is it shot, or what?

Possibly the power supply you are using is insfficient, if you have changed the
power supply. A floppy supply, for example, just won't cut it.

It could be that it won't spin up because it needs some signals attached to the
interface. Try hooking it up to the Amiga and see if it works.

>p.s.  Yes, a 10-meg drive is tiny, but it was cheap!

Them's the best kind. :-)

-larry

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