On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Mike Stein wrote:
I've got several ST251-1s that spin up just fine, no funny noises, but then do
a bunch of back-and-forth seeks and shut down again.
It's the usual, "they worked fine the last time;" any ideas what the problem is
and if there's anything that can be done? Presumably it's having trouble finding the sync
track; weak signal? Any ideas?
m
I'm actually trying to bring an ST251-1 back to life right now. It
worked, then was intermitently not recongnized by the controller after
being powered on for a while, now not recognized at all. When you apply
power it runs through whatever standard head-sweep routine (self-test?),
but there seems to be a communication breakdown between the Drive
electronics and controller board.
Various sources on the interwebs suggest me that the small SMD tant caps
by the power connector are a known issue on these drives and can lead to
all sorts of flaky behavior.
I've orderd a few from digikey, hopefully will have them by this weekend
to attempt a repair.
See my forum post here, where my shoot-in-the dark analsys is disagreed
with:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?54516-Caps-for-an-ST251-1:
--Jason
