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George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Sat Feb 9 22:13:17 CST 2002


On Saturday 09 February 2002 11:10 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, George Adkins wrote:
> > is the drive spinning up at power-on?
> > If not, check the auto-spinup or 'motor start' jumper on the drive.
>
> I think I hear some noise, but there are other machines nearby and the
> drive is close enough to the power supply that I hesitate to confirm it is
> spinning up. It is an 80-pin drive with both Quantum and Sun logos, and I
> truly don't see any jumpers, even after removing the spud bracket.
>

Solaris' installer should send the start unit command out to any drives on 
the bus anyway, tends to point to a smokified drive.   : (

check the 80 pin connector and see if there are any scraped up contacts in 
there before you give up all hope.

George



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