On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Jason Howe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 >
Can you swap the controller board of the drive with another drive's?
