This goes back to 1993.

I installed a then brand new 947 with two internal drives.  A year later we had
HP onsite to install a third SCSI half height drive in the open bay.  All went
well until the next morning after the install.  I came into work and sometime
during the night the system did a hardware crash.  It happened to be the new
disc drive that failed.  HP came on site very quickly.  As the SE was about to
pull out the defective drive he burned his fingers as he grabbed hold of the
drive mech. (ouch!@#)
After further investigation he discovered that the second cooling fan motor
wasn't running because it wasn't plugged in.  This 947 came to us straight from
the factory, brand new.
The SE plugged in the fan motor, replaced the drive (after it cooled down a bit)
and we didn't have another problem with it.

my 2 cents worth.

Larry B.

Bob Comeau wrote:

> Last summer we were having trouble with a noisy disc drive, an HP C3010, in
> the process of determining the problem the CE removed the drive from the
> system.  Normal enough, except that the drive side of the power connector
> came right off the drive.  He hadn't used any more force than normally
> required.  Luckily he was pretty adept with the soldering iron and managed
> to reconnect it.  He had never seen such a thing before, one for the books.
>
> That was then.  This is now.  Today we had to replace a tape drive,
> coincidentally in the same unit that we had replaced the disc last summer.
> All went well, until reconnecting everything we noticed that the power
> connector had come off the new (relatively) disc drive exactly as it had
> last summer.  Different CE, also good with a soldering iron.
>
> Is there a trend here?  Anybody else experienced similar problems?  If you
> have any of the older drives in service I would recommend extra caution when
> working on or around them.
>
> Bob