[iansmith]

For my next project I want to power up my Iris but first I want to try and take a backup image of the hard drive.

This powered up into the GUI 20 years ago but I don't have a monitor for it anymore, so am trying to back up the HD as a first step.

I've managed to image Amiga, Sun and Iris Indigo drives with my setup so I know it's working.

When I plug this drive in it seems to spin up and it reports "CDC 94171-0184" to the SCSI controller.  I can hear the solenoid locking the read/write heads in place click when it turns on, then the drive spins up but I never hear the heads move after that.

Linux reports...

[sda] Read Capacity (1) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[sad] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
[sda] Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, cause not reportable

Is this an issue with my setup, or does this look like the drive has failed?

Thanks!