On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jules Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > Afternoon all, > > This may be forgotten knowledge - or perhaps more likely, something that was > never known in the first place - but are there any typical failure modes of > ST506/412-type drives (beyond the obvious mechanical damage between heads > and platters)?
I had a Tandon TM602S refurbed in the 1990s because it was the mech from a Commodore D9060 drive (and we didn't yet know that a Seagate ST225 would drop-in without firmware changes, though at 5MB of capacity used). The specific fault with the one I had was a bad track zero sensor. It required opening the HDA, so I had it done by a repair house. ISTR it was well under $100 since I wasn't fiddling with the platters. -ethan
