Well, that's just typical! Amiga woes.....

[Adrian Graham]

On 8/12/05 21:53, "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Adrian Graham wrote:
>> Get the machine back online and BOTH disks have died on me. Backup drive
>> won't power up and the Amiga drive no longer responds to the gentle 'power
>> up please' tap I've been giving it.
> 
> Hmm. You could pull the lid on the Amiga drive and coax it into life by poking
> at the spindle; I've done that before with good results. Just obviously be in
> a position to start copying data immediately.

That's my plan, once I get back from my travels next week! My VAX 6000
installation the other month has turned into a 'deinstall VAX 6000 and
instead install VAX 7000 because it supports more memory'

*rubs hands in glee*

I'm SO glad we weren't the company that specced this installation in the
first place :D
 
> Strange that the backup drive died though. There might be a surface mount fuse
> on the drive that's gone, but it's an unusual failure.

I'll check.....

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