[time-nuts] OT: Disk Drive recovery.
d.seiter at comcast.net
d.seiter at comcast.net
Mon Dec 7 20:28:23 UTC 2009
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
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