Scott Ehrlich wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> Frank Cox wrote: >>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 >>> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 >>>> >>> >>> Get some canned air and blow the dirt off of the sensor in the drive. >> No change. >> >> The drive is the coffee mug tray style. so even opening the plastic >> housing for the drive does not let me 'see' the sensor, but I used a >> lot of canned air and no change in behaviour.... >> >> Perhaps I have to go out to the drug store and buy one of those drive >> lens cleaner disks? >> > > Have you tried removing/reseating the data cable on both ends? USB. I thought I mentioned that.... > I've seen this work a handful of times. Also, SCSI or other? If SCSI, > is it properly terminated, and with the correct ID? I once replaced a > SCSI hard drive, and due to some technical change that completely > baffled me, using the same cable, and ensuring IDs were all correct > (unchanged), could not get the system to properly boot? In the end, a > colleague with similar knowledge ended up relocating the SCSI > terminator on the cable itself. No reason why it needed to be > relocated, but that solved the problem. Yeah if those SCSI terminators get a little dirty ;) > Try cabling and see what happens... Using 2.0 cables. Of course the server is an old Compaq SFF that only supports USB 1.1