Re: Mac II drive

[Alex]

A mac expert explained to me that as drives get "old", the internal 
lubrication thickens up and the motor that runs the drive is not 
stong enough to start up the drive from a dead stop, yet the motor is 
still strong enough to spin the drive if it were already spinning.

My Mac IIsi appeared to not spin the other day, so I put my Mac IIsi 
on it's side, (while it was off, of course), and let it sit that way 
for an hour.  Later in the day, I tried the Mac IIsi, and it turned 
on for me.

I have no idea if that made a difference or not.  Perhaps the internal oil
"moved" while the Mac IIsi was on it's side (while it was off, of 
course), and made it easier for the disk to "start up"?

-Alex




Dear Vintage Macs:

A friend of mine has an old Mac II. A few days ago the internal hard drive
refused to mount. I tried using some old utilities to scan the bus to detect
the drive, but nothing showed up. I tried using an old version of Norton
Utilities (2.0) to see if I could fix this drive, but again to no avail. Any
other suggestions on ways to mount this drive? I would really like to take
any data off this drive.
Roland :)

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