Could it be temperature? Old drives that have been baked generally do weird stuff. Would you want to trust important data to it now?
I had a micropolis 4.5 Gb that got too hot and shut down - http://criggie.dyndns.org/hotbox/ On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:34, Steve Bell wrote: > Anyone have any experience resurrecting SCSI drives? I have a Conner 4Gig > drive that has a problem spinning down, then spinning up, and spinning > down..., I think only when I try writing. After trying everything else, > I've tried a low level format using FWB on MacOS, and not havin any luck. I > will give linux (RH8) a shot at it if anyone thinks it's worth trying...? > > TIA! > Steve >
