Re: disk drive troubles

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From: Edmond Walsh
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 00:00

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In article <tRGMrGAe9yF5EwwP@tcs02.demon.co.uk>, Martin Liddle
<martin@tcs02.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <16jYGBAVnxF5EwAd@walsh.demon.co.uk>, Edmond Walsh
><Edmond@walsh.demon.co.uk> writes
>>I recently bought a nice new IBM DJNA 352030 disk drive (about
>>20GBytes).  I have tried installing it on a PC with a gigabyte
>>motherboard (GA 586 TX3).  The disk drive just does not want to know.  I
>>have tried it as a slave on EIDE0 and as a master on EIDE1 but it is not
>>detected.  I suspect I may have a dead disk drive but I wonder if there
>>is anything else I should be looking at?  Any ideas anyone?
>>TIA
>Does it spin up?  Does it make a clunking noise during boot up?  I have
>had a couple of these DOA recently.
Good point, I think it does not spin up.  it seems to make a couple of
feeble clicks at start up and then nothing.  Looks like another DOA.
-- 
Edmond Walsh

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