Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Dead ST277N Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 90 13:20:12 GMT References: Lines: 20 >In article vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) writes: >We have an external SCSI hard drive for a Macintosh (Ehman, for those >who are interested) containing a Seagate ST277N which is not >functioning. From what I can tell, there is something wrong with the >SCSI controller. When we power up the drive, it makes some noises >(though it doesn't get as far as it normally does) and then the access >light blinks 8 times. This looks to me like some sort of a diagnostic >but I don't know what it means. I have several questions: [...] It would be nice to have this information posted to the net. Seagate drives do occasionally fail, and it would be nice to know why :-) >| Vincent Del Vecchio \ #include | -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |