Date   : Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:17:32 -0000
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: Technomatic Disaster

It's all turned out to be a rotten false alarm, sadly!

The drive worked for 50 minutes.  It was showing a lot of disc errors so
I ran a verify on it.  This was always my usual procedure when the drive
was cold: leaving it on for half an hour or so and exercising it a bit 
always brought most of the unreadable sectors back to life.

Then I tried to DUMP a longish file which I hadn't been able to load
previously and it got part way through until the drive light went out
and nothing else happened.  I didn't get a disc error, the Master just
waited.  After I pressed BREAK, I found I couldn't access the disc any
more, although the Adaptec LED still blinks every time I press BREAK.

Since then, it worked briefly a couple of times but has now stopped
working altogether.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Best wishes,



Ian


----- Original Message -----
From: Jules Richardson [mailto:jules.richardson99@...]
To: bbc-micro@...
Sent: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:54:12 -0500
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Technomatic Disaster

Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> This thread is going back a bit, but I've just connected up the Technomatic
> Winchester today and it's come back to life!

I don't remember the original thread/message, but you might want to archive 
off any useful data from the drive before it really does go bang :-)

cheers

Jules


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