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360 Systems Digicart Problem

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Robert Bass

Has anyone else ever had a 360 Systems Digicart Machine get stuck repeating a portion of audio like a stuck needle on a record? We have one where I work that’s doing it on both the internal hard drive as well as the Bernoulli floppy disks. Does it just need a new internal hard drive?

Thanks,

R
 
That's what it used to do to me when it had trouble reading from the SCSI zip drive.<P ID="signature">______________
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Thanks Sam.

In your case was it just affecting the Zip drive? Or did it also cause problems for the internal hard drive? In our case, it’s affecting both the internal and Bernoulli drive (yes we still have older digicart models that use Bernoulli disks.) I’ve had to power it down each time it happens, in some cases three or four times for the same audio file. Not always happening at the same portion of the audio file either.

R


> That's what it used to do to me when it had trouble reading
> from the SCSI zip drive.
>
 
It was just from a bad disk on the zip drive. When the internal drive crapped out the unit just didn't work at all...chief engineer had to replace it. Luckily, that was before I started using the zip drive on it...I bet I would have been thrown under the bus if it happened after I put the zip drive on it.

I forget the key sequence off hand, but perhaps formating the drive would fix things. If it's fragmented or if there's some software related glitch that may fix it.<P ID="signature">______________
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Yeah I tried that, to no avail. I guess we'll have to send it off.

Oh well....

Thanks Sam

R

> I forget the key sequence off hand, but perhaps formating
> the drive would fix things. If it's fragmented or if
> there's some software related glitch that may fix it.
 
> Yeah I tried that, to no avail. I guess we'll have to send
> it off.

If it's a smoking pile of junk, I'd be happy to take it off your hands ;)<P ID="signature">______________
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It's a skippingskippingskippingskippingskippingskippingskippingskippingskipping piece of junk. ;) You and me both, I'd love to have one as well. :)

R

> > Yeah I tried that, to no avail. I guess we'll have to
> send
> > it off.
>
> If it's a smoking pile of junk, I'd be happy to take it off
> your hands ;)
>
 
> If it's a smoking pile of junk, I'd be happy to take it off
> your hands ;)


Oh that Sam, always looking out for us engineers....man what a guy..
 
> Oh that Sam, always looking out for us engineers....man what
> a guy..

Must. Have. 360.

There was one on ebay about a year ago that sold REAL cheap. I almost donated 5 pints of blood with a kidney just to get it.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > Oh that Sam, always looking out for us engineers....man
> what
> > a guy..
>
> Must. Have. 360.
>
> There was one on ebay about a year ago that sold REAL cheap.
> I almost donated 5 pints of blood with a kidney just to get
> it.
>
Theres one for sale on ebay right now....Seller is right here in PA actually..

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We have 2 Shortcuts and I hated them and wanted to throw them off the roof until they made a conversion kit to do away with the SCSI drives. Now, they are rock solid they have not crashed once nor have they died in 2+ years. I was replacing the drives before almost twice a year.
 
> Theres one for sale on ebay right now....Seller is right
> here in PA actually..

I still would rather have a shortcut :)<P ID="signature">______________
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> We have 2 Shortcuts and I hated them and wanted to throw
> them off the roof until they made a conversion kit to do
> away with the SCSI drives. Now, they are rock solid they
> have not crashed once nor have they died in 2+ years. I was
> replacing the drives before almost twice a year.

That sounds like massively cheap drives. SCSI drives last yeeeeeeeeeears and are built tough for 24/7 usage and lots of disk access.

The only problem is they tend to make a lot of noise after a while. Noise + broadcast studio != good.<P ID="signature">______________
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This makes me wonder what kind of hard-drive is in our faulty Digicart machine. We have four of these machines. We got all four of them at the same time, around late 1991. The faulty one had a new hard-drive installed a few years ago. I was amazed at how quiet the whole unit was when it was reinstalled. The other three machines are noisy as hell. The one in the on-air studio seems to be the worst. You can really hear the thing whining and whirring. Maybe it’ll die soon. ;) How quiet are the Digicart II’s?

R

> That sounds like massively cheap drives. SCSI drives last
> yeeeeeeeeeears and are built tough for 24/7 usage and lots
> of disk access.
>
> The only problem is they tend to make a lot of noise after a
> while. Noise + broadcast studio != good.
>
 
> This makes me wonder what kind of hard-drive is in our
> faulty Digicart machine. We have four of these machines.
> We got all four of them at the same time, around late 1991.
> The faulty one had a new hard-drive installed a few years
> ago. I was amazed at how quiet the whole unit was when it
> was reinstalled. The other three machines are noisy as
> hell. The one in the on-air studio seems to be the worst.
> You can really hear the thing whining and whirring. Maybe
> it’ll die soon. ;) How quiet are the Digicart II’s?

One of my SCSI drives is so loud that you have to shut the door to the room otherwise it bugs people elsewhere. Another one is so-so. The 3rd is still pretty quiet. Drives are only about 5 years old.<P ID="signature">______________
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