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Anyone experienced similar cases in SAS?

November 6th, 2019, 8:00

Hello guys,,,

I got a strange case here in SAS where the drive Spins normal but Heads never moves...

its like the power is feeding the Motor & spinning @ normal speed but Heads like stuck but its not (when i move it manually its Ok not stuck)

Anyone had similar cases?

thnx

Re: Anyone experienced similar cases in SAS?

November 6th, 2019, 12:54

Usually an indicator of bad heads

Re: Anyone experienced similar cases in SAS?

November 6th, 2019, 16:06

Doomer wrote:Usually an indicator of bad heads


And/or media damage

Re: Anyone experienced similar cases in SAS?

November 6th, 2019, 17:19

pcimage wrote:
Doomer wrote:Usually an indicator of bad heads


And/or media damage

Could be media damage that initially destroyed heads.

Re: Anyone experienced similar cases in SAS?

November 7th, 2019, 4:48

Humm, the options are:

Heads or Media damaged

The only thing that is annoying here is that Spinning up process is normal (I compared it with one of the working drives same model exactly)
and the spinning up process reaches a level where Motor spins normal then some certain init. time and Heads starts to move (it doesn`t in my case example)

seems i have only one option left to try here

Thank you all guys for the advice/comments...
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