On 7/17/07, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Reminds me of a HDD I had a few years ago that decided it didn't want to
un-park the heads when I powered it up. It had some data on it I really
wanted. I figured for all intents and purposes it was FUBAR and I'd
never get the data off anyway (I couldn't afford the $900 it would cost
to have the data recovered). So...
...I banged the side of it hard on the table, plugged it back in, and it
worked. I copied the data off and threw the drive in the trash (after
erasing it).
Was this a DEC RD54 by any chance? Those particular drives had a
head-parking bumper that turned to glue over time. There used to be a
recipe for unsticking them that started with putting the drive in a
freezer to make the glue brittle. Then the whack on the side, and
defeating an electrical interlock so the drive would try harder to
position the head away from the bumper.
carl
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