You mean the one with bad electronics or the one with bad mech? Both drives are non-working.
My system is so loud that it would be hard to hear anything like this. In any case, the BIOS fails to detect that anything is connected when I connect any part of the drive that I am trying to recover (bad electronics). I don't think a frozen platter would cause the electronics to fail to ID. -- Allen > 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 > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
