24 Mar
2000
24 Mar
'00
7:15 a.m.
In <m12YYwO-000IyJC@p850ug1>, on 03/24/00
at 04:15 PM, ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said:
>
> After putting the skins back on the machine it is giving me a ERROR 13 -
> DU0 not ready error.
>
> DAMN!
Ouch, indeed :-(
But are you _sure_ the drive is damaged? Most of the
time something like
this is caused by :
Not really. It sounds just fine.
Knocking a DIP switch (or one of those frontpanel drive
control switches
on Qbus boxes) when refitting the case
Knocking a cable out of place
Traping (and damaging or shorting) a cable
Shorting the logic board on the drive to the case
(I've had this one once
-- an RD53 would work upside-down on the bench but wouldn't work in the
machine. Turned out it was shorting to the mounting skid when it was the
right way up).
This last thing is for sure not the case but the others are possible and
when I get home I intend to hit each of them in turn. I hope it is a
setting and not something worse. The thing is that I had the thing
working, replaced the two metal hatches and slid it back into the plastic
outer case. No boards or cables were involved so I have to think it is
probably something worse than a setting or loose cable.
All very good advice though. Thanks all.
I'd look for simple problems first...
-tony
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