Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:26:01 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) To: Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us>, Hardware list at FreeBSD <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dead quantum story Message-ID: <199610152126.LAA19184@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us> "Re: Dead quantum story" (Oct 15, 8:04am)
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} I've had several drives in the past that seem to have gotten stuck for } some reason or another. In one the end of the spindle was actually } exposed, so I could reach in and give it a twist to get it started [sort } of a jump start :-)]. In others I've been able to recover data by taking } the drive out and twisting it parallel to the spindle quickly back and } forth; that seemed to be enough the break the spindle free. I then } IMMEDIATELY do a backup and trash the drive - drives are cheap, data } usually isn't... :-)!! } I've had a number of drives that required some physical prodding to get them spinning again. Most of them are still in service -- I just mostly don't turn them off. If you intent to trash your drive(s) just because they don't always spin up then please send them to me! Richard
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