This may not be helpful but is amusing. This problem reminds me of a 40
mb external drive I had many years ago that wouldn't spin up, I drilled
a hole through the outer and inner case that were aligned with the edge
of the disk at an oblique angle, to start it I would give it a prod
with a knitting needle, it was still working a couple of years later
when I passed on to someone else.
On 24/04/2005, at 5:09 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
I would also get the power supply checked out, to me (without opening
the box) I would say it is suffering, and is not providing the grunt
it needs to start, if the HDD you are running is an older one (more
than 2-3 years) the bearings will be wearing and the grease starts to
go hard when cold, trying to get them to spin up with a PSU that is
not in good shape can take a few tries (alot of IBM eng's will know
this one from the old days of spinning up HDD's that had not been
used in months, sometimes you would have to physically spin the drive
with no platters by hand about 20 -30 revolutions just to get it to
run ;(
ah that takes me back to the old days of the other Apple "SE" the SE
30... they also had hard disks that used to suffer from a similar
complaint - both mine and the ones at work once they got on in the
years would often need to be perched up on a gas lift chair and then
you'd spin the chair as rapidly as you'd dare and after a couple of
revolutions quickly and forcefully grab SE and (obviously) stop it
from spinning, then put back on the desk and boot it up...
tell that to kids these days and will they belive you? ........
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