17 Aug
2005
17 Aug
'05
2:08 p.m.
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:04 +0100, lee davison wrote:
Opening it up to have a look, well a little dust
can't be as
bad as debris that goes 'ting', I found a 12mm long 2.7mm dia.
roll pin lying in one corner. Anyone have a clue where this
may have come from? Dare I power the drive without it? This
may eventually be the only option if I can't re-install the
pin.
I suppose there are only a limited number of places inside the drive
that it could have come from...
While this is an RO200 series I don't know which
one. The
series seems to run from 5MB to 40MB and I'd like to know
which one this is likely to be.
Do you know if it's an 200E-series drive or a plain old 200 series?
Capacity seems to be dictated by number of heads (which you can count
with the lid off!), but the E series drives were capable of more
cylinders than the others...
Assuming this drive needs to be replaced can I use a
40MB
SCSI drive on the Torch SCSI board and bypass the SCSI to
ST506 interface? This would be the prefered eventual solution
as I have a few 20MB to 200MB SCSI drives I could use.
Hmmm... not sure, but I presume the software expects the bridge board to
be present as it'll likely look for the drive geometry stored on the
first sector of the disk, then issue a vendor-specific command to the
bridge board to tell it the capacity of the drive that's connected to
it. That's not going to work in SCSI-land...
cheers
Jules