Ok thanks a lot. I am going to keep working on them, and I'll let you know
if I get one running. Would be cool if I did because I got a huge box of
programs with them also.

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Jonathan Morton <[email protected]>
wrote:

> > On 26 Jul, 2018, at 10:12 pm, Pete Andrew <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > ok swapped hard drives and still same error.  When you smack the
> computer, can I target a specific area?
>
> On my IIcx, almost any area above or beside the HDD tended to work.  The
> idea is simply to jostle the spindle bearing so that it unsticks.
>
> However it's also very likely that you have bad capacitors in both
> machines.  That condition is often known to disable the SCSI controller
> until it's fixed.  Since you have them open, now is the time to inspect.
> Look for bulging tops and dark brown leaks, but don't assume absence of
> evidence is evidence of absence - a few capacitors seem to fail silently.
>
>  - Jonathan Morton
>
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