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Re: [PLUG] Old hard drive laying around?
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Unfortunately, the drive makes no noise at all. I tried the rotational snap
motion you speak of without a hint of success. Maybe I should freeze it
although in this weather the drive would be totally soaked before I could get it
from the freezer in the basement to my office on the 2nd floor. Perhaps a
sealed plastic bag would solve that :-)
Thanks,
Eric
On 07/17/2010 01:15 PM, Carl Johnson wrote:
> 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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> Sent from my Treo™ wireless handheld device.
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> 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?
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> 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
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> On 07/16/2010 02:39 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> Doug:
>
> 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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