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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LaCie Cirrus 105 bellies up
Summary: Did it again; bound for Oregon.
Message-ID: <1698@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 90 07:27:28 GMT
References: <1671@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1990Feb23.002911.5814@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1990Feb23.002911.5814@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:
>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...
>
>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...


Thanks, I'll need it.

  Just to update the saga, the next morning at 2:00, the drive dropped dead
again.  The Mac froze completely, and when I rebooted, the drive did not
appear.  I ran Silver Lining, and it told me the SCSI bus wasn't responding.

  LaCie Tech Support, when I talked to them, said I should check the drive on
another mac if it failed again, to make sure it wasn't the IIx's SCSI flaking
out.  So, I hauled it down the hall to my friend's room, and plugged into his
SE.  Same thing.  No SCSI bus for awhile, then when it came up, it was putting
up a bogus SCSI address on the bus, etc, etc.

  In short, it's headed for Tigard, Oregon for the LaCie folks to look at.
They said that if I ship 2nd day air, as they do, that I should have it back
in 1-1/2 weeks.  Not bad.  Meantime, I'm running the IIx off of floppies.  Oh,
joy.

Cheers,
--Mike