On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 05:50 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, December 17, 2010 05:32:43 am Ralf Mardorf did opine: > > > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 11:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I'm turning on my computer several times a day and my drives get > > > broken after 2 years > > > > Last time this happened Gene recommended that I should hit the hard disk > > drive with a hammer on startup and it worked :). I was able to backup > > important data, but I couldn't backup all data. I noticed that after the > > HDD rest for a while, a week or so, it worked better when using the > > hammer, resp. I used a slat. > > I don't recall using the word hammer without the rubber prefix.
Pardon, you're right. > That really > is extreme, although I do have an old Maxtor 7120S that needs a pretty good > bump to get it started. Once running, it has no bad sectors yet. The idea > is that you give the drive a good bump, with the ball of your hand, or a > small rubber hammer, striking the corner of the case so that the drives > case is spun a few degrees in the same plane the disks inside turn. This > breaks the heads loose from the disks, which have become so polished that > they stick to the disk like a set of machinists 'Joes Blocks' which are so > highly polished that one can bring them together in whatever thickness you > need to set a gage with, by twisting them. They will remain stuck together > until you twist them again breaking the atomic bond. If the drives case, > and the heads attached to it, can be given enough of a twisting motion > relative to the disks, by a sideways blow on the corner of the case, the > heads will come loose and the drive motor will then have enough power to > get the disks started. The heads will be flying on a film of air, as they > are designed to do, before the disks have turned half a turn. Soft wood > might do as it would dent, cushioning the blow somewhat without damaging > the case casting. I used Norway spruce :), anyway the click, click appeared when I tried to backup a Windos XP pro install :D, I could backup all Linux installs, perhaps 60GB from a 80GB drive. Maybe I could have backup Windows too, I didn't try it a second time, because I don't need Windows. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
