Re: [PLUG] Fixing bad hard drive

["Michael D. Barlow" <mdbarlow@comcast.net>]

I was always under the impression that this is not a controller problem,  
but a problem with that little stepping motor that controls the arm...

I have never been one to try to repair the drive, just to buy a new one...

If you are able to repair this without lifting the platters, I would like  
to know. It would be handy for data recovery..  I come across this problem  
more often than not.



Thanks..

Michael D. Barlow


On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:37:37 -0400 (EDT), Jon Nelson  
<quincy@linuxnotes.net> wrote:

> I have a Maxtor D540X-4K 40gb drive that I took out of my Tivo after it
> stopped working.  I put it into a Linux box as secondary master and the
> BIOS messages stated that the drive failed.  In the boot messages Linux
> saw it as /dev/hdc.  An 'fdisk -l /dev/hdc' returned nothing.
>
> The drive does spin.  Since I had nothing to loose I took of the top of
> the drive and watched it spin up.  The arm traveled from the center to  
> the
> edge.  When the drive was accessed the arm went back to the center with a
> "clunk".  This could be heard before the cover was removed as well.
>
> I want to try to replace the controller card to see if this fixes the
> problem.  Has anyone ever done this?  Does it work?  Where is the best
> place to get a replacement?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jon



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