At 19:17 -0500 on 16/01/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >No, I don't think so. I turned everything off in my office, (except the >lights of course) turned on the drive, stuck a pencil in the fan to make it >stop, (it's very noisy) and could neither hear nor feel anything, (I put my >finger on the hard drive to see if I could "feel" it moving or buzzing or >something). So . . . as Martin Luther would say: "What does this mean?"
Those Miniscribe drives were notorious for dying from stiction. What's stiction, you ask? A combination of the words "sticky" and "friction," it's the phenomenon that occurs when the bearings in a hard drive seize up. The drive can occasionally be resurrected by holding it in one hand whilst applying a very sharp blow to the edge of the drive with the other (do this over a bed or pillow in case you drop the drive). This can sometimes break the stuck platters loose, allowing the drive to spin up and allowing you to recover any data on the drive. Once spun up, the drive should *NOT* be allowed to spin back down again, because you run the very real risk that once it spins down, it has spun its last. The drive should be replaced as soon as possible. Any SCSI drive with a 50-pin connector should work OK. -- the pickle FAQ <http://macfaq.org/index.shtml> _________________________________________________________________ -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
