Hrm... does the non-working drive make normal clicky noise when you hook it up? Im just guessing, but I think your heads may be bonded to the platters :D Ive seen this on my old 135MB seagate. It was pretty comical. After seagate replaced my drive, they didtn ask for this one back, so I took the cover off, and plugged it in. You could see the spindle try to turn and the the heads were bonded to the surface so i would kind of bounce a little. I used some dental tweezers to pry the heads, which was like braking a spot weld... it was pretty funny.
Jamie On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:38:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:38:27 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > > Alas, the operation was not successful. In fact the good > electronics board flatlines when connected to my mech. > It doesn't even show up in the BIOS. But when I put that > electronics board back on the original mech, it does show > up in the BIOS. > > This makes me think my theory was wrong. It is not an > ESD zap. I now think there is a short in the aux electronics > in the mech assembly. That short drags down the main > electronics board, possibly thru the power supply. > > Unfortunately, that is a lot more difficult to repair. It > would be sealed in with the platters. I wonder how long a drive > would function if I opened it outside of a cleanroom. :-) > -- > Allen > > >> Alan wrote: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> Oops! My bad. It's not an IBM. Its a WD2500 Cavaliar. > >>>> WD2500JB-00EVA0 dated 16 Dec 2003. > >>>> Anybody have one of those I can trade? > >>>> -- > >>> > >>> I might actually. Let me check tonight and get back to you. > >>> > >>> -ajb > >> > >> > >> I actually have two of them: > >> sprocket:~# cat /proc/ide/hdb/model > >> WDC WD2500JB-00EVA0 > >> sprocket:~# cat /proc/ide/hdc/model > >> WDC WD2500JB-00EVA0 > >> sprocket:~# > >> > >> However, they are both in use right now. > >> If you'd really like to try them, I can probably make one available to > >> you. Have to do some re-jiggering though. > >> > >> -ajb > > > > Thank you. I got one from Quentin yesterday. This one's mech is > > dead, making it a very appropriate victim. I'm doing the brain > > transplant now, so I should very soon know if the operation was > > successful. Bwah, ha, ha! > > -- > > Allen > > Igor, raise the platform! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
