Series/1 noisese and failures... 4967 dead?

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Tue Mar 10 09:24:44 1998

> Well, without changing the blower motor or fuses, I plugged in my newly
> rewired 4967 hard drive. I turned it on, the power supply made that
> electrical buzzing noise that big PS's do(and a 220v motor in the
> background running at half speed), then the drive started to spin up. Is
> there a miniaturized jet plane in there? ;-) Anyways, it starts up(power
> light comes on), and then after about 10-15 seconds there is a clunk sound
> and the drive kinda shuts down until it tries again about 20 seconds
> later(or maybe because I turned on the CPU). I'm not quite sure what ti
> think. I haven't bothered taking it apart yet(too much work to get the
> PS/controller unit off). Anyone have any ideas, or know someone who would?

Perhaps is the drive motor not spinning fast enough (because it may be a
240V type as well, now only getting 120V)? If it can not get up to speed,
well...

Maybe if I am bored tonight, I will take a look at one of mine.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Tue Mar 10 1998 - 09:24:44 GMT