Re: Quantum Fireball EIDE uncooperative
I'd warranty the drive - it sounds like you have a future paperweight.
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I personally can't stand Quantum drives - I perceive them to be
unreliable. This is a personal opinion of course :)
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
:Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
:>
:> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
:>
:> > I should point out that during boot, the hard drive spins up, green
:> > light looking normal, then spins down with the green light blinking
:> > slowly and non-stop. I am not familiar enough with hard drive fails to
:> > know exactly what this means.
:>
:> I've seen things like this on older SCSI disks, the disk thinks something
:> is wrong enough for it to abort it's powerup. If you went out of it's
:> rated heat range then your toast, otherwise I'd phone up quantum and hope
:> it's on warrenty.
:
:I got is a few months ago... less than 6. The thing is, it spins up
:later...
:
:> If your PC got hot enought to cause the disk to have problems I'd worry
:> about other components too.. Probably took a year off it's life!
:>
:> I know my 2G fireball doesn't get very hot while running..
:
:I have a 3.2G, if that is useful. The rest of the system was fine (ie
:ran off the rescue disk, and was not particularly warm to the touch
:anywhere, and the power supply was also pretty cool), and the machine
:had been up on other such hot days... I just happened to check the drive
:thinking heat might be the problem. I guess "HOT" should be taken as a
:relative term... I mean, I touched a bare powerpc running at 300 MHz,
:and that was much hotter. Let's say the drive was very warm, but still
:spun up on my next attempt to boot (then spun down again with the
:blinking green light).
:
:Drive spin-up delay out-of-whack at boot time?
:
:Any other guesses?
:
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