Date   : Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:22:14 -0000
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: Technomatic Disaster

Update...

I left it thinking about it after pressing CTRL-A-BREAK whilst writing
the previous message.  When I went back to it, nothing has happened, but
I pressed CTRL-A-BREAK again and it suddenly came back to life!

It's obviously some sort of intermittent fault, but I've no idea where to
begin to try to pinpoint it.

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Wolstenholme [mailto:bbcmailinglist@...]
To: bbc-micro@...
Sent: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:17:32 -0000
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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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