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From: mueller@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Carl Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Miniscribe hard disk won't spin up
Summary: It just "beeps" then flashes its LED.
Keywords: Miniscribe hard disk problem
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Date: 18 Dec 89 10:17:14 GMT
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Reply-To: mueller@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Carl Mueller)
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I have a Miniscribe 3012 10 meg hard disk.  I had it working fine with
a Mac system for a bit, then tonight I reworked it to go with my Amiga.
Before I attached it to anything, I tried powering just the drive up
to make sure it was still okay.  It wasn't!

The drive will just produce a beep-like sound (sort of a high pitched
buzzing) for about 3 seconds, make a slight click sound as if wanting
to spin up but deciding not to, and then it will just flash its LED
in a repeating pattern of short-long-short-long-pause.

Does anyone know what this means?  Is it shot, or what?

-Carl Mueller (mueller@alphard.cs.utk.edu)

p.s.  Yes, a 10-meg drive is tiny, but it was cheap!