The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JustinD1203 on 2025-03-11 00:25:15.
I need some help from the experts. I haven't been able to find much (or for that matter any) information on repairing or even troubleshooting this drive.
I have an IBM SCSI Ful Height LTO-4 drive that was in a tape library I got for an E-Waste pile. In my ventures of finding out if the issue was the library or the drives, I obtained a IBM LTO-2 drive and swapped it into the caddy of the 4 drive. That works in the library so I now know it's the drive as the issue.
Unfortunately these drives are expensive and hard to find, especially when I have no real need for this hardware, just because it's cool and I am trying to use it with my AS/400.
When I got the library it was complaing about both drive failures, and a PSU failure. I first tackled the PSU failure and was able to find a simple fix, that has seemeed to hold up. The fan's wiring was touching the backside of the fan, the part that spins. It has worn almost completely through the fan wiring so I relocated the wiring and it seems happy now. I assume it was a fan failure that resulted in that message.
Now onto the drives. Both of them have the same failure mode. There is no lights, no digit on the SCD display, and not movement at all. The only thing it does is make a high pitched wine when powered up. That's about all I have to go off of.
Please if anyone knowledgeable in this hardware is willing to offer their two cents, that would be extremely helpful. Let me know if I can provide any more information.
Thank you!!