Re: [PLUG] Old hard drive laying around?

[Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com>]

Does the drive make any noise? It might just have a little sticktion.
Try putting power to it and snap the drive from left to right
(horizontally). This used to work well for me with old ESDI and MFM
drives.




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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:11  PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Old hard drive laying around?



I suspect that the drive capacity and number of heads is in PROM, so you
might need the exact model.  I have these ( marked as not working )

WD400BB-75CLB0
WD800BB-55JKC0
WD800JB-00FMAD

Lee


On 07/16/2010 02:39 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
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> Doug:
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> Since I'm trying to swap the electronics on the drive I suspect that brand is
> essential and model is probably important.  This is a 180 Gig Western Digital
> Caviar drive so I'm guessing that at least a WD Caviar of similar capacity would
> be required.  Please let me know if you have any WD Caviar drives in the bunch.
>   All I have is a boat-load of old Maxtor drives and a couple of Seagate Barracudas.
>
> At my wife's suggestion I'm looking at ebay and craig's list too.
>
> Thanks
> Eric
>
> On 07/16/2010 01:08 PM, Douglas Muth wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Eric at Lucii.org<eric@lucii.org>  wrote:
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>>> My son's G4 Mac died and apparently it's due to the hard drive not working.  I
>>> put the drive in an external case and it did not spin-up so I suspect the
>>> electronics board is bad.
>>>
>>> I'd like to try swapping the electronics to see if we can get it working.  If
>>> anyone has an old Western Digital Caviar WD1800 (IDE) drive laying around and
>>> they'd be willing to donate it or sell it for a small sum you'd make a certain
>>> 18 year old music fan VERY happy.
>>>
>>>
>> Does it have to be that specific brand and model?
>>
>> I was actually going through some old hard drives last night and still
>> hvae some working ones that you can have (once I wipe them).
>>
>> -- Doug
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