Date: Mon, 14 Oct 96 9:56:38 METDST From: Rob Schofield <rschof@mccomm.nl> To: scott@statsci.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org (Hardware list at FreeBSD) Subject: Dead quantum story Message-ID: <199610140856.JAA04715@mccomm.nl> In-Reply-To: <m0vCg0c-0003wGC@main.statsci.com>; from "Scott Blachowicz" at Oct 13, 96 10:56 pm
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> Well, my Quantum Empire 1400S finally decided to stop spinning up...I've > noticed that it seems to take several hits of the reset button before it would > spin up and after turning it off yesterday, it just won't spin up. Now, when I > turn it on, I hear three little rumbles while it tries to spin. Any idea if > there is a reasonable remedy? Should I just smack it around a bit? Other > suggestions? (no, I don't have that much experience trouble shooting hardware > problems...:-)). Maybe I should give Quantum a call first... > > Thanx, > Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) I am reminded of a rather ancient Goon show joke: "Dear sir, My dog has taken to lying on his back with his legs in the air. He has been like this for three days now. What's wrong? Confused of Fetcham, Surrey" "Dear Confused, Your dog is dead. The Doctor" Sorry about the irrelevancy of this, people, but I couldn't resist.... ;^) Actually, on a more serious note: it sounds like a dead spindle bearing, which is usually terminal. You can recover from a dead controller on the disk by cannibalising another, but when the mechanicals go west, you've had it (even if you get the can open to look, just opening it will deposit so much large-dimension dust on teh surface that you would head crash badly if it ever re-started). I have only successfully once got out of this; I had a Seagate, horizontally mounted, do something similar. I took it out of the machine and stood it on it's side so the platter was in teh vertical plane. This allowed the disk to come up just long enough to get most of my data off before I started getting sync and other such errors. Rob Schofield -- Witticisms are hard to define on Monday mornings... schofiel@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~schofiel rschof@mccomm.nl
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