20 Nov
1998
20 Nov
'98
1:54 p.m.
At 03:44 11/21/98 +0000, you wrote:
Gee, you're up rather late tonite Tony! :-)
Already tried that today. The two RK07's that were useable did not work.
One had a terribly noisy spindle bearing and faulted upon spinup and the
other has some sort of problem where the Fault light comes on after it does
the seek-to-track-zero process. I swapped 'Ready' lamps too. Seems I have
just one drive to work with now.
Regards, Chris
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I swapped the
cable for another RK cable. Now after I type 'DM' and hit
return the 'A' light comes on along with the LED on the module in the card
OK, so you have a bad cable, or at least a bad contact at one end. It's
pin-pin (apart from that one pin with no wire going to it, I think), so
it's easy enough to check out with an ohmeter. The contacts can be
cleaned pretty easily.
cage but there is no further action. The diskpak
was labeled 'Bootdisk'. I
think the previous owner did say he was able to startup the machine a
couple days before I picked the equipment up.
Do you have 2 drives fairly close together? If so, cable up the other one
in place of the one you're using and swap over the 'Ready' lamp caps
which set the drive ID. See if that gets it booting. At least that should
isolate a drive problem.