Boy, does that bring back memories! I have had a bunch of SCSI drives with this problem. One drive in particular was so bad that I had to use a plier to free the spindle (about 1/4" was exposed for a grounding tab). I couldn't afford a replacement at the time, so I kept hoping it would keep working, which it did until I found a good deal on a removable cartridge drive (can't think of the name now, but the cartridges were about 5" square). I probably still have it around somewhere.
-Dave This reminds me of the ancient Seagate insufficient startup torque problem. At work I was able to unfasten the hard drive and, at power-up, give the drive a quick physical rotation, just enough to get it spinning and then copy the user's data from it. Of course, users don't back up their files. Mike - AA8K Dave Baxter wrote: > For many "failed" hard drives, it's not a "hardware" failure at all, but > a very corrupted data surface, rendering even the drives own error _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
