In <m12YYwO-000IyJC_at_p850ug1>, on 03/24/00
at 04:15 PM, ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said:
>>
>> After putting the skins back on the machine it is giving me a ERROR 13 -
>> DU0 not ready error.
>>
>> DAMN!
>Ouch, indeed :-(
>But are you _sure_ the drive is damaged? Most of the time something like
>this is caused by :
Not really. It sounds just fine.
>Knocking a DIP switch (or one of those frontpanel drive control switches
>on Qbus boxes) when refitting the case
>Knocking a cable out of place
>Traping (and damaging or shorting) a cable
>Shorting the logic board on the drive to the case (I've had this one once
> -- an RD53 would work upside-down on the bench but wouldn't work in the
>machine. Turned out it was shorting to the mounting skid when it was the
>right way up).
This last thing is for sure not the case but the others are possible and
when I get home I intend to hit each of them in turn. I hope it is a
setting and not something worse. The thing is that I had the thing
working, replaced the two metal hatches and slid it back into the plastic
outer case. No boards or cables were involved so I have to think it is
probably something worse than a setting or loose cable.
All very good advice though. Thanks all.
>I'd look for simple problems first...
>-tony
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