Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dsacg1!nfs0294 From: nfs0294@dsacg1.UUCP (Glendell R. Midkiff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: hard disk crash - help please Message-ID: <1510@dsacg1.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 11:18:09 GMT References: <8908101714.AA16538@ei.ecn.purdue.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus Lines: 22 From article <8908101714.AA16538@ei.ecn.purdue.edu>, by supple@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Murray R Supple): > > ,........... just a few seconds after the power comes > on (long before the memory test completes), the hard drive access light > begins to flicker and continues to flicker as long as the power is on. > During the equipment list check, the floppy access light comes on and then > (when it normally checks the hard drive) there is a long pause. After the > pause, I get the error message: I recently had a nearly identical problem with a new CDC 40meg drive in my Epson Equity II. I could not format the drive, or access it in any way. It just set there with the little light blinking all the time. I returned it to the dealer and they were unable to do anything with it either, so they replaced it with a new drive. This is probably not what you want to hear, but sounds like you have a dead drive. -- |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| |Glen Midkiff osu-cis!dsacg1!gmidkiff | |From the Internet: gmidkiff@dsacg1.dla.mil | |Phone: (614)-238-9643 @DLA, Systems Automation Center, Columbus, Oh. |