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In article <816507666snz@microvst.demon.co.uk>
           tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk "Anthony R. Gold" writes:

> In article <816475560snz@c4rv.demon.co.uk>
>            raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk "Rajesh Varia" writes:
> 
> > If there a simple solution that does not involve returning the
> > drive to Quantum (expected to take 4-6 weeks to return).  He
> > also has about 300 meg of unbacked-up data on the drive (sods
> > law, he powers down the machine to plug in the DAT drive and
> > it fails), so he would like it working again.
> 
> Is there a power supply problem?  Did you say the drive only fails to
> spin up when the DAT is also plugged in?  If so, it's fine to plug in
> the power connector of the DAT after the HDD has spun up.  Not a working
> proposition but okay to get both on-line to do the backup.  Then perhaps
> see if you need a meatier psu to support the speed-up power requirements
> of the Quantum with the DAT on line.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
>    Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM                  email: tgold@panix.com
>                                                 tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk
>                                         packet: g3skr@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na
>
We tried both with and without the DAT drive.  I should mention that he
has been using the HDD for around 7 months as part of a BBS setup. In that
time its only been turned of around 5 or 6 times (once was the previous
day to unplug the DAT drive).  The drive current has about 3.5 gig of data
of which the latest 300 meg was not backed up.  He has the other 3.2 on DAT.  

The spec of the machine is a 486dx-50, 32 meg of RAM, ET4000, NE2000 NIC,
2 x 4 gig Grand Prix drive, 1.44 FDD, External DAT drive, 2 x External 
CD-ROM jukeboxes.  Its a tower case with a 230 watt PSU with three fans 
(two chassis, 1 CPU). The External DAT, CD-ROM jukeboxes and the monitor
have their own power supply with is not from the case. 

This leads me to believe that there is a problem with the HDD because 
everything is still running fine.  We tried the drive on a seperate machine,
and the SCSI LED lit up to indicate access on bootup, the was a second of
wurring sound and then nothing. I have heard of cases where HDD motor
can get stuck in a certain position so that it cannot spin up.

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Rajesh Varia     raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk