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From: knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with 45mb removable drive
Message-ID: <16564@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 91 05:06:50 GMT
References: <1991AMFri.04.12822@dircon.uucp>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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In article <1991AMFri.04.12822@dircon.uucp> uad1031@dircon.uucp (Julian Templeman) writes:
>
>Hi.... I have a Syquest-type 45mb removable drive manufactured
>by Cutting Edge, which I am having trouble with, and I'd
>appreciate some input.
>
[...]
>green light usually comes on. But now - the disk slows down to
>a halt, and the drive sits there with the LEDs flashing one
>green/five orange. Occasionally I can provoke it to give me
>one orange/six green instead. No mention in the manual of
>what these mean.

Your unit is experiencing hardware trouble and needs to be sent in for
repair. The blinking signals an error code output by the startup self-test
routine.

I have had my drive blink on me once, but it was only a glitch and
powering the drive on and off once fixed it. The info above I got from
MassMicro tech support (just one of the reasons why not buying the
cheapest syquest-based drive has paid off for me--but that is a
different story...)

Edgar

(knapp@cs.utexas.edu)