Re: Chinook HD reliability

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <4nojp0$5od@newsserver.trl.OZ.AU>,
Andrew Guillaume <a.guillaume@trl.telstra.com.au> wrote:

>I have had a Chinook hard drive for my trusty //c for a while (if my memory
>is right, approximately 4 years). In that time I have had the power supply
>die twice. Is that something that other Chinook HD users have experienced?
>What is the reliability of the Chinook drive? In both cases I had been working
>on my //c for a few hours, turned the system off, and the next day, the HD
>wouldn't power up. In both cases, the temperature in the room where I keep my
>system went down to about 10 degrees C. Are Chinook HD's sensitive to storage
>and operation temperature?

The power supply in my CT-20c succumbed to a power flicker and had to be
replaced way back when in the days when Chinook was still Chinook. Later on
I bought a used CT SCSI drive whose power supply was weak and would inter-
mittently stop providing terminator power. This wreaked havoc when I tried to
use it on my IIgs and Mac Plus but it never hiccuped on my Quadra. I called
Sequential and was told not a chance of getting a replacement. That drive has
since found a new owner.

>Given that I am in Australia, I won't get any support from Sequential Systems
>(who make/distribute the Chinook drives nowadays?). Has someone out there
>any technical info that could be sent to me so that I can maintain my HD?
>Info such as circuit diagrams, parts, etc?

If anyone can fix 'em I probably still have my shot power supply around and
wouldn't mind getting it repaired to keep around as a spare.


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