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From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quantum seeking randomly?
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Date: 21 Feb 91 17:02:03 GMT
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I have a Quantum 105 megabyte hard drive hooked up to a Microbotics
StarDrive controller on an Amiga 1000.  I've had it for about half a
year, and it has worked fine since I hooked it up.  However, because
of the particular mounting brackets/LED I purchased (separately), the
LED isn't hooked up (the connector doesn't fit the LED output on the
Quantum).  This isn't ordinarily a problem (but if anyone knows where
I could get an LED that fits, please let me know).

Occasionally the Quantum emits a brief burst of seeking noises even
when the Amiga isn't accessing the drive; I know this is normal.
However, recently it's started making seeking noises continuously,
whether or not the drive is being accessed.  It doesn't seem to affect
disk accesses--I've had no read/write errors, and I seem to be getting
about the same throughput.  Since I don't have the LED hooked up, I
don't know whether my controller or the drive is responsible.

Has anyone experienced similar behavior?  Please respond by email.
If I get any useful responses, I'll summarize.

Thanks.

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