Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!spdcc!mirror!rayssd!galaxia!mrsoft!mrr From: mrr@mrsoft.Newport.RI.US (Mark Rinfret) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: I need Help with the A3000! Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 11:24:09 GMT References: <6100@sugar.hackercorp.com> <6142@sugar.hackercorp.com> <2152@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> Lines: 22 >In article <2152@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> dac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes: > >Ok, I know people are loath to speculate on things that go 'whir' >in a machine, but I've got this problem, and would like some >advice. > >A few days ago, I did a RENAME operation on a file, and my >Miniscribe 71Mb HD went into never never land. The drive access >light went through a cycle of three short flickers, and one hard ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >on light, for about a second, repeated ad nauseum. ^^^^^^^^ It's quite obvious, you caused your disk drive to experience "sexual overload". :-) Mark -- ################################################################# # Mark R. Rinfret, MRSoft Home: 401-846-7639 # # mrr@mrsoft, galaxia!mrsoft!mrr Work: 401-849-9930 x301 # #################################################################