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Date:	Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:29:56 -0700
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: blinking power led

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I'm having some problems with one of my eCS systems. This is an A7V133
mobo with a PCP&C power supply. It died over the Labor Day weekend,
trashing my second physical drive, a ~250 MB IDE which was connected to
the Promise PCI-ATA100 secondary IDE controller. The partition table has
gone away and it looks to DFSee like all free space. The crash also
trashed the boot drive: CHKDSK put nearly 100 files in \FOUND0. That
part, I can recover from.

I have been trying to do a full R/W scan via DFSee on the 250 GB drive.
Jan's docs say this is data-safe. It hangs after a variable amount of
time. I moved the drive to the secondary IDE channel and tried again.
This time, when it stopped, I noticed that the power on led on the front
panel was blinking. I could restart the system via CAD, which I could
not do before AFAIR.

Does a blinking power led have any special significance? Beeps on
bootup, I know about, but a blinking power led?

I have done a DFSDISK and sent the results to Jan, but he is on
vacation. Anyone know when he will return?

Any words of wisdom? Thanks!
--
Tom Brown, Catherder
thomabrown at gmail dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA

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