From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 15 14:26:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09667 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pegasus.com (pegasus.com [140.174.243.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09661 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id LAA19184; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:26:01 -1000 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:26:01 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199610152126.LAA19184@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Mike Newell "Re: Dead quantum story" (Oct 15, 8:04am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Mike Newell , Hardware list at FreeBSD Subject: Re: Dead quantum story Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk } 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