These drives, the ones with a Quantum drive mechanism fail. I have had countless Quantum HD's fail, from 80megs to 20 gigs just fail. One caught on fire inside the computer! But I have come to find that Quantum is the worst Hard Drive made.
Nick -----Original Message----- From: Vintage Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dustin Rinebold Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:07 AM To: Vintage Macs Subject: Hard drive failure question... Hey all. In the last month or so, I've have 3 hard drives "fail" in the exact same manner. Two failed in a Mac TV, and the third, which just happened tonight, occurred in a Quadra 605. Basically what happens is that the drive spins up for about two or three seconds, and then spins back down again. I don't hear any grinding sounds or anything unusual - it just spins up, and then back down. I've moved these drives over to a known working IIci, and they do the same thing there. So it's definitely something wrong with the drives, as opposed to the computer. When the two drives failed in the Mac TV earlier - I chalked it up to just an unfortunate circumstance. But now that a third has failed in the same manner in less than a month, I'm wondering if there's something else going on. All three drives are Quantum mechanisms, one being 80 megs, and the other two are 160's. The only other thing that may be related is that I was messing around with finding a good PRAM battery for the two systems when the drives failed. For example the 605 wasn't booting properly today - the hard drive was spinning down, and I wasn't getting any video. So I replaced the PRAM battery, which of course fixed the video, but the drive still won't spin up. It worked fine before hand! So now I can't get the drives to stay spun up on ANY computer I have, which makes me believe they all just failed in EXACTLY the same way, but it just seems like too much of coincidence. Anyone have a similar experience? Or do I need to just throw these drives out and stop thinking about it too much? Thanks, dustin -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
