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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HD Woes: Chapter XXXVIII
Keywords: Priam 738 SCSI Hard drive HD help
Message-ID: <10857@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Apr 90 15:01:58 GMT
References: <3546@pikes.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
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In article <3546@pikes.Colorado.EDU> bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben Scott) writes:
> Well, I'm almost ready to give up.  After two weeks of agony, I finally have
> a 230 watt 'baby AT' power supply with the necessary power specs to run the
> Priam 738 (for those of you just tuning in, I am in posession of a Priam 738
> 330 meg SCSI hard drive that my employer bought new for $200 with no docs and
> I get to try to set it up).  And it still won't spin up.  At this point, I get
> adventurous and begin trying jumper settings at random (there are two rows of
> 10 pins with no labels, and some spare shorting blocks haning off some of
> them.  Still no luck.  The drive just clicks when power is applied.

Be warned that drives bought cheap are often dead or refurbs or not what you
think they are.  You'll probably save a bunch of time if you order some docs
now.  I didn't hear that Priam got bought, lately it's been Imprimis and
Miniscribe.
 
More general warning: anyone buying drives "cheap" drives via mail order should
take a very defensive attitude and be very sure that they have both the options
to return drives until they get one that works reliabily or get their money
back.   There are a lot of drives going around, some sounding very attractive.
Some are good, many are generic duds, production fallout or refurbs.  If it
doesn't say, ASK!

Oh, you might check over in the comp.periphs.scsi group for real info..

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