[Chester LUG] LTO

[Stuart Burns]

Hi Wijnand,

I suspect if you pulled the molex out whilst the machine was on, you have
probabily blown an inline fuse.  Unfortunately this isn't really fixable.
Board level repair perhaps.

Regards

Stu



On 26 July 2010 18:36, Wijnand van der Giessen <giessenw at googlemail.com>wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> I bought an LTO drive from ebay, it worked fine until I pulled the molex
> power plug while the computer was still running. When I plugged it back in
> while the computer was switched off nothing happened anymore the drive seems
> to be truly dead. Also tried it on another machine.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this. I have had a closer look but do
> not see anything that is damaged or discolored or anything indicating a
> fault. Not found any fuse type devices as well that might have blown and
> need replacing.
>
> I'm guessing it requires a complete circuit board replacement but that
> might be too expensive for my purposes.
>
> Anyone any advice?
>
> *Les*, is this Thursday the next meet. I have not been to any of the ones
> for this year so far due to various time restrictions.
>
> Regards
>
>      Wijnand
>
>
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