Subject: Re: HD in critical condition
augustus@acerbic.org
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 23:40:52 AKST
Hit it with a stick! ;->
No really, if it's an old drive that had been running for a very long time
before shutdown the motor may (now) be too weak to overcome the platters'
inertia or it may be suffering from "sticktion" (iirc when the heads
literally stick to the platters and prevent it from spinning up,
solution: hit it with a stick (or hand, rubber mallet etc...)I havn't
heard of any recent drives with this issue but I seem to recall it fairly
common with certain Quantum drives 8 or so years ago but my memory is a
bit fuzzy on that.
In either case gently smacking it around some might help, the sudden shock
of a technical tap may loosen things just enough for the motor to get the
platters spinning agian (assuming of course it's a motor
weakness/sticktion problem). When you manage to get it running agian I'd
suggest backing up the drive or just make a mental note to never turn that
machine off again ;->
-Josh
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Bryan Medsker wrote:
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> After being down for a few days and having a fan replaced, my
> computer booted up only to tell me that the hard drive was no
> longer recognised.
>
> After testing other possibilities, I confirmed it's the hard drive's
> problem. It won't even spin up. It is getting power, though,
> because a green light flashes on the logic board. If that's the
> case, could the electrical path be dropping the +12V power, but not
> the +5V, somewhere on the board?
>
> Can anyone suggest what might be done?
> Thanks.
>
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> Bryan Medsker
> bryan@ak.net
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