On 2010-10-05 23:59, Mark Wickens wrote: Hi Guys, Just to let you know that we had a circuit breaker trip here today and when I restarted the VAXstation 4000/90 the Seagate ST39173N system disk no longer spins up. The controller recognises the drive, and an LED on the drive circuit board flashes once on power up and when it is queried by the SCSI controller, but at no point does the drive spin up. Ouch! Always unpleasant... Try to perhaps shake it a bit if it is stuck. Does anyone have any tips? I thought I had a duplicate drive I could try swapping the controller board with, but I've yet to locate it. It might be stuck heads, but given the circumstances it is more likely to be something that has gone bang. Stuck heads, or sometimes stuck spindle. Shaking might help. But you might be right in that it's something more serious... This box hasn't been backed up in a while. I may have a working version of the website on a backup, but there will be a few features missing if the restore works. Even worse. In the meantime the website will be down. Oh and also, if you haven't done that backup in a while, NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT!!! You mean something like this? .set /host Host=PONDUS RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 BL87 .que /li ** PRINT QUEUES ** PRINT (STOPPED) => TT30 FTSQUE => FTSDEQ TT26 (STOPPED) => TT26 TT30 (STOPPED) => TT30 ** BATCH QUEUES ** BATCH => BAP0 BAP1 [7,14] DST ENTRY:878 BLOCKED UNTIL 31-OCT-10 03:00 1 DU0:[DST]SETWINTER.BAT;1 BACKUP => BAP0 BAP1 [1,54] BACKUP ENTRY:913 BLOCKED UNTIL 13-OCT-10 09:00 1 DU0:[BACKUP]BACKUP.BAT;1 .sha dis UMB Devices I/O Errors Status 055330 DU0:,*DU1: 0. 0. Load_Share, Catchup complete . (Backup job is run every week, and disk is mirrored...) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol