CPU/Disk Drive Troubleshooting
A5 Disk Drive
A5 Disk Drive
There are two different types of A5 Disk Drives available. The standard drive is a
typical hard disk drive, while the option SSD drive is a solid state (FLASH)
drive. There are also different drive capacities and interface types that have
been, and are being used, and due to continual changes being made by the
drive manufacturers these will continue to change from time to time.
The A5 Disk Drive is physically connected to the CPU assembly. Failures of this
disk drive can be either hardware or software related. The first step in trouble
shooting is to determine if the failure is software related. If software is found
not to be the issue, the disk drive should be replaced.
Before replacing the A5 disk drive it is highly recommended that the factory
NOTE
calibration data be backed up to an external drive if at all possible. If this
data is not backed up prior to replacing the disk drive all instrument
adjustments and performance verification tests will need to be run after the
drive is replaced.
For information on how to backup this data see the
and Restore"
section in
Chapter 15
308
"Calibration Data Backup
of this manual.