Lorne
Veteran Member
I've got a 5160 XT that I purchased from the original owner about nine months ago.
It worked fine when I received it, and by the looks of it, and from what I was told, it has had very little use.
I started it up today, and the HDD won't work.
I'm getting a 1701 error during POST, which is a "fixed disk post error".
The drive is a "MiniScribe Perfect-20-IBM/XT" (although it's not quite perfect at the moment).
While I'm using the two floppy drives the rest of the XT works fine, but while I'm doing that, the in-use LED on the HDD constantly flashes as follows:
1 long flash, followed by 4 short flashes, followed by 4 more short flashes, followed by a 1 second pause, followed by 4 short flashes. Then the series repeats itself.
Way back in my memory bank, I seem to remember that some HDD LED flashes meant something (for troubleshooting). Am I dreaming, or are these flashes really telling me something?
It worked fine when I received it, and by the looks of it, and from what I was told, it has had very little use.
I started it up today, and the HDD won't work.
I'm getting a 1701 error during POST, which is a "fixed disk post error".
The drive is a "MiniScribe Perfect-20-IBM/XT" (although it's not quite perfect at the moment).
While I'm using the two floppy drives the rest of the XT works fine, but while I'm doing that, the in-use LED on the HDD constantly flashes as follows:
1 long flash, followed by 4 short flashes, followed by 4 more short flashes, followed by a 1 second pause, followed by 4 short flashes. Then the series repeats itself.
Way back in my memory bank, I seem to remember that some HDD LED flashes meant something (for troubleshooting). Am I dreaming, or are these flashes really telling me something?