Re: LC 520 - Yet more issues....

2016-12-30 Thread Dylan McDermond
Most of these Quantums have melted rubber on the head assembly bumper. - Dylan > On Dec 30, 2016, at 10:20 PM, 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs > wrote: > > You may be able to recover those drives for use. If you have a PC, get a > cheap Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI

Re: LC 520 - Yet more issues....

2016-12-30 Thread 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs
You may be able to recover those drives for use. If you have a PC, get a cheap Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI controller with a boot ROM or BIOS. You'll want one with a 50 pin narrow SCSI connector. Then you can try the controller's built in low level format on the drives to see if it can revive them.

Re: LC 520 - Yet more issues....

2016-12-30 Thread John-Robert La Porta
Everyone had the right suspicions: TWO of my HDs had failed, that's where I was thrown off. Thankfully, one of my PowerMac 6100s was nice enough to give up its HD, and that works fine. Many thanks for all of the help. Also, that SCSI to Flash thing is intriguing...I may have to look into that