KC Wilkerson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have an old 660 av hard drive they can spare? Mine was
> screamin' so I took it out. I'm running it on a zip drive. Also, how can I
> recover data from the old drive?
>
> Thanks,
> KC
You can replace your drive with virtually any SCSI hard drive, either
new or used. PowerOn Computing (www.poweron.com) has been selling
"pulled" hard drives for a penny per megabyte. I bought a 9-GB IBM hard
drive from them last spring for $89!
I see in their current MacAddict ad that they advertising internal SCSI
drives starting at $9.99 for an 80-MB drive (WAY too small for anything
useful) up to 2-GB. I guess they've finally sold out all the larger
ones, but check their website.
("Pulled" drives mean they were yanked from machines at the factory
because of other problems that flunked them in quality control. The
drives carry a 30-day warranty from PowerOn Computing, but the drives
are still also under full factory warranty, so it's a safe bet you'll
not get burned.)
If the drive was still functioning when you pulled it, you may be able
to re-install it and back up all your data files to Zip disks, or you
can re-install the drive in tandem with an additional drive (internal or
external) and simply copy all your files by drag-n-drop.
I have an old LaCie 1-GB external drive I've had for about nine years.
Sometimes it screams like a banshee with its tail caught in a wringer,
other times it's whisper quiet, but it keeps on ticking. I use it most
often as a portable data storage media where a Jaz drive isn't available.
I don't know how much life the old girl has left in her, but I'll use it
until it dies, then I'll crack its case open and simply replace the
drive mechanism with a bigger one.
At any rate, it's not a good thing when your hard drive begins screaming
at you. It's definitely a symptom that something is awry and that you're
probably living on borrowed time.
BTW, if you install a new internal hard drive along with re-installing
your old drive, you'll have a SCSI addressing issue that will require
resolving before you can proceed. One of the drives will need its
address changed. This is accomplished by installing a jumper pin
somewhere along the lower front of the drive. Most drives are labeled so
you can figure out what a jumper pin would do if installed across any of
the pins. Just make sure that whichever new SCSI address you assign to
whichever drive is not in conflict with any other SCSI device on your
machine -- internal or external. I wouldn't assign address 3 since
that's the usual default address for CD-ROM drives. If you have an
external Zip drive, avoid addresses 5 and 6 since those are the only two
numbers available for that device. That leaves you with 1, 2 or 4.
Hope this helps.
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