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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Micah Failure HELP!
Message-ID: <3985@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 01:14:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 01:14:08 1986
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Summary: how I revived just such a dead Micah last week - drive was 'stuck'


I had just such a dead Micah ruin my sleep for about 1 week, and last week
I had scheduled an investigation into the problem with a knowledgable
friend.

We took the drive assembly out and tried it with replacement power-supply and
could not make it work.  However, we noticed that the drive did not seem to
spin, so we took it apart further but ran into some "special screws" holding 
the logic board in place (star-shaped, with 'bells and whistles' so we
proceeded to remove the metal frame of the drive assembly.  Then, with the
rubber-end of a pencil, we move the drive a little and where surprised to
find that the drive spun quite easily, rather than finding the brakes stuck.

So we hooked it up to power and, to our surprise, everything worked
fine again.  I went ahead and backed up the drive to tape which worked fine.
Even though it seemed to be working fine, it will go back to Micah, of course
(would you trust it?).  Of course, Micah had been of no help when I had
called them, but then what hardware manufacturer (or better, assembler) have
you known that would encourage you to do what we did?