[olug] Odd IDE drive issues

[Eric Lusk]

Unfortunately this is an on-board PSU, so no replacing it without soldering another in place.  Not really an issue at this point, since the DVR has been replaced (the system was still running; only when they tried to back up the data to CD/DVD did it fail to burn, then just quit seeing hard drives altogether).
Had it been a regular PC I could have gotten it running, but it was displaying a number of issues before it wiped its own drive.  Those were noticed when watching the recorded video after it was rescued (failure to respond to movement, etc).

 I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells should work.



----- Original Message ----
From: DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com>
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:33:17 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Odd IDE drive issues

an optical drive only uses significant power when spinning a disc or
recording...a HD is always spinning...

sounds like PSU issues...

is this a DVR appliance, or just a PC DVR?
is the PSU a seperate PCB?
burnt traces?

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I suppose it's a possibility, although with this system the DVD drive was a
> burner (I've seen burners take a lot of power as well).  This system was
> apparently the victim of a surge/lightning strike, so any number of
> components could have been taken out.
>
>  I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells
> should work.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Shannon <ridgid at gmail.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11:10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Odd IDE drive issues
>
> I think I have had something like that happen before on a computer. for me
> it was a weak power supply. the system could no longer spin up the drive.
> but cd must take less juice
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