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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Whoa!  MINISCRIBE DRIVE BLINKS S-O-S!
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Date: 20 Feb 90 03:14:48 GMT
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In article <6598@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> cs471s07@uhccux.UUCP (Cs471s07) writes:
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<I got a drive from someone to look at because they said the drive was flaking
<out.  I put it in my PC and checked it out.
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<Then lo and behold I noticed that the drive (miniscribe ~40MB) was blinking its
<light.  Oddly enough the sequence is ... --- ... which is SOS in morse code.
<

My Miniscribe documentation (for their 4053, a half-height 42 Megabyte goodie)
states that the lights will blink indicating 5 bits, not just the three you've
indicated.

kEITHe