#A3000 Motherboard Avail?
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Well… I think your good wishes helped. After getting no where by pulling and
re-inserting IC's I considered the possibility that my boot HD was faulty and
disrupting the rest of the SCSI chain. Sure enough after a HD transplant I was
back in business, and now I no longer need to warm things up to get my A3000 to
work (so I lost my Quantum 200MB – maybe due to "sticktion"?). I'm down 120MB
(my largest "extra HD was 80 MB), but I now have a fully functional A3000!
-RSL-
Well…. "stiction" is a problem more likely to hit Seagates, but I've
seen a few Quantums get it. I've got an old Seagate on my spare 2000 that
has it. With Seagates, you can poke the spindle to get it going. The
Quantums are sealed up tight, but sometimes you can get them to spin up by
rapping on the side of the drive.
-Jim
MOS via Autopilot & Amiga
Jim,
Gee… things were bad enough having to warm up my A3000 for an hour
before successfully booting, I couldn't stand disassembling the chasis and
tapping on the drive! Life's too short for that! It's (my Quantum) much
better suited as a paper weight with it's present problem.
-RSL-
Hey, Jim, I've got a couple of similar paperweights around.
DJ
Roy,
Yeah, pulling the 3000 apart to rap a drive would be a hassle. I was
thinking of it as a test, just to see if the stiction was indeed the
problem. On my #3 backup system I have a Seagate that sticks… it's on a
long cable outside the case. So if it doesn't spin up, I can pick it up
off the desk and poke the spindle with a screwdriver. 🙂 Ugly, but it
works. Anyway, sending it back to Quantum would be your best bet. That's
too big a drive to relegate to paperweight mode.
-Jim
MOS via Autopilot & Amiga
Good deal! I'm glad you got it fixed.
By the by, what're you going to do with the bad hard drive? I'd be glad to
accept it as a doorstop if you're going to pitch it.
Regards, Phil Combs
Phil,
I haven't decided what to do with it yet. I probably should give
Quantum a call and see if I could get it fixed for a reasonable price. If it
was 40 MB I probably wouldn't consider fixing it, but 210 MB is a healthy size
HD, even in these days of gigabyte drives!
-RSL-
True. Just let me know what you decide to do. Regards, Phil Combs