Hi Justin, I will try that for what its worth but its worth a try but its old and I think neared its end of life. :) Terry On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 4:09 PM Justin Cordesman < shadow_at_darksideresearch.com> wrote: > Two things: > > 1. Try turning the drive upside down if you need to recover anything from > it. Sometimes if they are having trouble getting to target speed switching > the load to the top bearing gets you there. > > 2. https://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-s/100.htm > > I use one on my Powermac 9600 since it sits on the edge with the last > support for the 400k floppies but has modern Ethernet support. There are > newer ones since mine with higher performance. Use good media, genuine > sandisk extreme or the like (there are a LOT of forgeries of SD and microSD > media so shop carefully). Write endurance and I/O performance, especially > random writes, is very different as you go up the quality scale. > > Justin > > On Jan 30, 2021, at 14:58, Terry Raymond <traymond160_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > Does anybody know much about the CMD HD? > > It seems my Hawk Seagate 2 gig mechanism crashed, this mechanism had > always run fairly quiet but within this year it has gradually been running > louder, until just last week it will not longer bootup. > The top green Activity light comes on and blinks for an eternity then goes > out > then the Red Error light flashes. > I have my CMD HD device number set at 8 > I have my UIEC2CF set right now at 9 > I used Jiffy-Dos to cycle to Device 8 but on the monitor it didnt show 8 > it > displayed 30 but the CMD HD doesnt complete its boot, I cannot access > anything on it, not even pulling up a directory. :( Yes the mechanism > spins up but thats it, just errors, nothing. > > I have one other Hawk Seagate but its the type that has jumpers on the > side of the mechanisms controller board they are labeled as: > > TE DS ME WP PE SS TP TP > Do any of these jumpers need to be jumpered? If so could someone provide > me with a good physical layout of how the jumpers are placed, please. I > would rather have a graphical layout and ascii diagram wont do. > > So if this mech wont work I have heard that there is some kind of > SD remake for SCSI, would this possibly work in the CMD HD? > If so no more noisy mechanical mechanisms to listen to that would be > really nice, the CMD HD only recognizes up to 4 gig, I think its something > to do with the boot Rom only supports up to 4 gig. > > Thank you, > > Terry Raymond > >Received on 2021-01-31 01:02:16
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