[ale] SCSI fun n' games

[critter at wizvax.net (Glenn C. Lasher Jr.)]

Sounds to me like the motor jumper is not shorted.

Some older SCSI drives had a jumper which would supply the power to the
motor.  If that is not shorted, then the motor gets no power.

Alternatively, it *is* an old Seagate.  Could be "sticktion."  The older
Seagates have a tendency to fuse their heads to the platter.

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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Tom Simpson wrote:

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> 	I am now in the process of tryingto get a hard drive hooked up to my
> Multia. I have a Seagate ST1480N 420 meg drive, a 50-pin cable and a
> headache. I am powering the drive with a spare power supply I had laying
> around and have the cable run into the case from the outside and connected
> to the socket on the PCI riser where the SCSI-2 connector normaly hooks
> in.. I have zippo experience with SCSI and, frankly, the data sheet I DLed
> from Seagate isnt helping much.
> 
> 	When I hook the cable up, the drives LED stays on solid and the motor wont
> spin up. Even after trimming the locator tab off of the conecctor on the
> cable and reversed it, same thing. Even with the other end of the cable
> disonected, ditto. With no cable connected at all. it spins up nomonaly.
> Fidddling with the termination and Dirve ID jumpers seems to have had no
> effect.
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> 
> 	Any feedback would be appreciated.
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> -Tom
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