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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!boulder!news.coop.net!village.org!not-for-mail From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: More Zip drive troubles Date: 10 Jul 1995 15:09:33 -0600 Organization: The Village Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3ts4ud$642@rover.village.org> References: <3trdop$soq@ecl.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.village.org In article <3trdop$soq@ecl.wustl.edu>, Brian L Gottlieb <brian@beru.wustl.edu> wrote: >The Zip drive's "in use" light will stay on, and the disk >keeps spinning, but nothing seems to be happening. It also seems >that the SCSI bus is locked up somehow, since I can't access the hard >drive when this happens. I've had this happen to me with an Old Archive tape drive when the cable is loose. Reseating the cable makes the problem go away. While not an ideal solution, it works for me. The Archive is an internal version and the cable comes loose due to thermal variation and due to the weight of the cable (the scsi chain has 5 devices on it, all internal). Anyway, this smells like some sort of SCSI problem. Maybe your cable isn't properly seated/secured to the back of the drive? Warner -- Warner Losh "VMS Forever" home: imp@village.org Cyberspace Development, Inc work: imp@marketplace.com Makers of TIA, The Internet Adapter. http://marketplace.com/