Date   : Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:59:25 +0100
From   : Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>
Subject: Re: Viglen Winnie / Miniscribe 3438

At 20:50 11/07/2006, I wrote:

>Anyone have the "flashing LED" error codes for the Miniscribe 3438 
>which is inside the Viglen external hard disk unit? I think mine's 
>gone pop but want to verify if it's the board or the drive.

Actually, assuming that Miniscribe had common error codes for their 
drives, it indicates "Code 4 - Index pulse not detected during 
spinup" (flash/solid/flash/flash).

That's decoding using http://www.coleskingdom.com/files/WD1002.TXT

*sigh*

That'll be a bummer to replace.



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