19 Jun
2007
19 Jun
'07
12:16 a.m.
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:21 -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Hmm... I don't think filesystem problems will
cause the Fault light to
light up, just problems within the drive. You may need to trace back
all of the causes that sum up to "Fault" to see what's going on.
Ha! I had the opposite problem when I ran up the bottom drive on my
PDP-11/73 for the first time in ages. Popped in a disk, shut the
drawer, hit "LOAD", let it spin up (it's so much quieter than the top
one - maybe I need to check the motor bearings), heard the heads load,
no READY light. Hm.
Spin down, pack out, check hub etc, pack back in, LOAD, spin up, load
heads, no READY. Hm.
Get another pack, spin down, change pack, LOAD, spin up, load heads, no
READY. WTF? Check the cables, which involves pulling the whole rack
forwards and all the junk balanced on top.
Then it hit me. No, not something falling off the top of the rack.
About six months ago when one of the cars had to go in for its MOT, the
ABS diags light didn't come on with the ignition - an instant MOT fail!
I only found this out late on the night before it was booked in for its
test at 8am.
"Bum," I thought, "Where on earth am I going to get a 12v wedge-base
bulb at this time of night...?"
Gordon