offline drives: Re: MVII Diags Chapter 2

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Tue Mar 19 10:07:38 2002

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Gunther Schadow wrote:

> BTW: any ida why mine barks at me I had disabled my MFM drive? The
> RQDX3 passes the test fine, but doesn't detect any devices. I think
> I put the cables together fine and checked that today. I see the
> RX50 floppy react normally in terms of signalling write protect
> on the console if I stick a write protected floppy in. But the
> MFM drive does not have its LED lit and never seems to seek or do
> anything other than spinning. Is that normal? Are there jumpers
> to take care of? (That drive came from some old SUN.)

Gunther,
  I don't know, but I think I'm missing something too. Do the diags
just show a dead drive as "offline"?
  I put the original RD54 back in as drive 0 and no longer get the RQDXA
errors from the diags, but both drives 1&2, RD53s, are showing as
offline RD51s. What's up with that?

        Doc
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