Emax

I don't think the hd is stopping because of voltage.  It's stopping when the drive goes into standby mode.  I assume because it's not being used.  It'll spin up twice and then the light on the back of the drive will change from green to orange and stay that way.

I can restart as many times as I want and it will do the same thing... then after 10 mins it'll spin up the same way but then start clicking and that's when I know it's finally reading the data and booting.  I'll probably pick up a voltmeter and see if it's getting different voltage from when I first start it up to after the 10 mins.

I tried a lot of jumper settings... I only have "Spin Up" jumpered and the rest are..
Low AC
Fault
Busy
Reserved
+5 V

I believe termination is jumpered as well.

This sound about right?




--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "emax_dx5" <cadena100rb@...> wrote:
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> If your HD stops after some spinning i would go for a voltage problem again. If you have electronic skills and tools, measure the voltage on the power socket to see if it goes to 0 when the hd stops.
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> Another idea: Could it be a bad jumper settings on the HD?.
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> Altough it is not Emax related, I had lot of troubles installing an HD into my Akai S3000 XL. Had to set two jumpers for getting it working properly. 
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> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "andykinnetz" <akinnetz@> wrote:
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> > Checked the sockets, everything looked ok.  What happens is the hard drive will spin up twice and then just go into standby mode, meanwhile the emax is searching through scsi finding nothing... then if I leave the emax on just sitting there searching scsi for atleast 5-10mins and restart the hard drive will kick in instantly.  And will do so until I turn it off for an extended period of time.  It's almost like something is discharged after a while and then it takes 5-10 mins to charge it back up before the hard drive will kick.
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> > Any ideas?
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