My SC101 containing a 300gb Seagate has just fallen over while I as trying to install a second HDD in the POS. The 300gb Seagate is not showing up in either Disk Mgr or the SCM Utility. When I try ut_full, the mesg is “0 Mirocsan found within subnet”.I’ve tried everything else recommended in this Forum except for trying my HDD in another SC101 or replacing the PSU. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance - Chewy.

There is a basic divisive split in Northern Soul from my experience - those that think Northern Soul is a certain type of “Beat” and those that believe, like me, that it is basically because the music first really came into the country up in the North of England - at the time of recording it, a lot of the “original” Northern soul music (as we called it) was competing with the phenomenon called Motown in Detroit - black artistes saw music as a way out of poverty and many cut demos - this is why the sound “quality” on many recordings sometimes leaves something to be desired and why the other identifier for Northern Soul, the rarity of the original material, happened - people simply couldn’t afford big runs of vinyl. Many of the artists involved failed in the US (I believe this was primarily because there was simply a glut of good material and only room in the charts for so much of it), and many artistes had no idea how big their records were, in this scene, in the UK (classic example was Loleatta Holloway who sang Love Sensation - listen to the song and suddenly you know where “Ride On Time” came from many years later when it was sampled without her knowledge - she sucessfully sued the label Black Box recorded under I believe). Don’t forget these artists were competing with the likes of The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops etc. Did you know that by definition, Edwin Starr is a Northern Soul artist - he made it big in the UK only.

The whole soul scene is still strong in the UK and still not very mainstream, although tracks like “Jennifer Hudson, Spotlight” are popular (Modern Soul track) and of course R&B gets most of its sound and influence from this original scene.

By the way Peter, excellent site - and if you’re into all this stuff at the moment, can I recommend “Searching for Soul” as a book which has a very simple and easy style and shows off what the scene “feels” like from someone who was a part of it. On a loosely related point, I must strongly recommend the new Seal album called “Soul” - its simply brilliant IMHO.

Hope these limited comments add something … all the best everyone

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