5 Nov
2006
5 Nov
'06
10:19 a.m.
Jules wrote....
I certainly would have thought that it's worth
your while to make up as
many good units as possible out of the bits, unless you know that the
failures aren't fixable already. As I recall the drive's on-board diags
are pretty good (as are the manuals - I'm pretty sure there were
comprehensive test procedures in there)
Yes, I'm aware of the diags. I have
read the manuals quite some time ago and
saw the cute built-in "console port" and such.
I had written...
> but they are clearly dead
To which Jules responded.
How do you know?
Because the collector on this list who gave me all the RA81's said they were
tested and dead, and he put the "Bad HDA" tags on the front. But you're
right I shouldn't take his word for it. I should retest them all.
Jay