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On Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:36:35 +0000, martin curtis
<martin@quokka.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>it's a DPT PM2021

Should be no problem.


>> Could possibly be an ill drive, although they are quite robust creatures.
>apart from the problem described, i've seen no other indication of
>anything untoward - certainly all of the diagnostic tools that i
>mentioned show clean results.

Have you run the DPTMGR utility on it?? 


>intriguingly, the 'clunk' noise is identical to the one it gives on
>boot-up.  the drive takes about 20-30 secs to come up from the time that
>the machine calls for it, although i seem to remember reading somewhere
>in the manual that this (the time lag) was to allow all SCSI devices
>time to come up, and is therefore quite normal.
>
>hope that this helps your line of thought,

You've not got "idle spin down" set have you? Check the jumpers on the
drive and on the card.

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