On Mar 24, 2010, at 14:53, steve harley wrote: > On 2010-03-24 13:41 , Joseph McAllister wrote: >> Turn the drive on and count to one or two. >> Let the drive fall onto the desktop. (or slam it gently into the desktop >> if a second try is needed) > > years ago (15?) there were Seagate's that had a tendency toward "stiction"; > they had a visible axle for the spindle on the outside of the drive, and one > way i was able to spin one of these up was to apply the power then take the > eraser end of a pencil and apply some torque to the axle >
Whoa! I haven't had to play that kind of game with harddrives since about... 1989? I remember a series of 10-meg (yes!) drives on our Northgate (yes!) machines in the office that slowly stuck themselves into inaction. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
