On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Billy Holmes wrote:
Christian Parpart wrote:
However, I once have (accidently!) thrown down one harddrive of
mine from within 60cm distance down while moving to a new tower/
rac; I were nearly
many moons ago, I had a 300 meg IDE drive that I bought for a
dollar - and this was when drives sold for about a buck a megabyte.
A lady brought in her computer with a broken harddrive. It would
not spin up, but after I accidently dropped it on the table, it
started working. We replaced her HD, and I asked the owner if I
could buy the broken HD for a dollar.
I stuck it in my BBS machine at the time, and it lasted 2 years for
me. It would work great so long as I did not power down the
machine, then I had to tap the harddrive, or bang it with a pen
while it was trying to power up. One day the power went out, and
when it came back on, the HD would not spin up despite my "tender
care" - it had died. I knew that day would come, so I had current
backups.
They just don't make them like they used to :)
Probably was suffering from "stiction" (google it)
Chad
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