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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LaCie Cirrus 105 bellies up
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.002911.5814@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 23 Feb 90 00:29:11 GMT
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mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb) writes:

>Well, this is truly odd.  Last night around 2:00 my LaCie Cirrus 105 external
>drive dropped dead for about ten minutes.  The sequence of events leading up
>to this happening, and after:
>Long and very detailed list of symptoms...

>5.)  I called LaCie Tech Support, and they said that they hadn't heard this
>set of symptoms before.  He said he would discourage me from sending the drive
>in, since if they couldn't reproduce the error, I'd be screwed out of a few
>weeks use of the drive.  He suggested frequent backups and pious living,
>basically, and wait until it fails more permanently, or just works fine from
>now on.

>Has anybody ever seen such a thing before?  It was really odd to me that the
>drive would just spontaneously spin down and then put up an erroneous address
>on the bus.  It sounds to me like the SCSI controller in the drive has dropped
>dead.  Anybody concur?  Or am I seeing stiction?

Doubt it's sticky, 'r' else it wouldn't run up/down.  Did you check out
the power supply for the drive?  Run it with a voltmeter.  Otherwise,
I'm afraid he's right--hope it fails (or not?) more "reliably".

Good luck...

	Alex

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