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From: RDBROWN@UALR.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Possesed Hard Drive
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Date: 8 May 90 12:39:00 GMT
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In message <48913@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
writes...

>My 65meg Seagate ST277N is posessed. I died quietly a couple of nights
>ago. And when I turn it on, it spins up ok, sounds normal, but the
>activity light blinks 9 times as some sort of internal error code.
>
>Anyone know what the 9 flashes mean? One of Seagate's techs looked down
>his list from the manual, and it covered 1 to 6 and 8 (7 flashes were
>not assigned). But no 9!
>
>What gives?

Is it possible, or did the tech you talked with indicate that the 9
flash sequence could be a combination of the sequences you listed?
Out of 1-6 and 8, you could have 8+1, 6+3 and 5+4.

Could it be a software failure, or the hd interface failing to interpret
a message from the software? You might try running a diagnostic
program such as XOPER just to see if something weird is going on with
the system.

Robert Brown
RDBROWN@UALR.BITNET