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- From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Care and feeding of recuperating ST251...
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:29:10 GMT
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- Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
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- A week or so ago, I requested advice on a dead Seagate ST251 hard
- disk which bit the dust. My request was phrased something along
- the line of "tell me things to try - it's already dead so if I
- ruin it for life, no big deal."
-
- To my surprise, several people chimed in with the same advice - tap
- the bottom of the spindle with a plastic screwdriver! I gotta tell
- ya that it sounded like a pretty drastic measure, but since that was
- pretty much the sum total of the advice, I decided to give it a shot.
-
- Well - as you can guess - the little sucker came back to life, and
- passed disk diagnostics after that. So I've loaded DOS 5.0 onto it,
- and am going to give it another opportunity to do its duty in life,
- having been narrowly saved from the trash dump.
-
- But now I am wondering if there is some sort of routine which I should
- follow to help it live a full and useful life? Perhaps a drop of
- machine oil applied to the bottom of the spindle? Perhaps leaving it
- powered on more? Talking to it?
-
- Thanks for your thoughts.
-
- John
-
- --
- John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
- nall@mailer.scri.fsu.edu | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
- Stephen King, bah! The best horror story ever written is "Dance of the Dwarfs"
- by Geoffrey Household. Probably you never heard of it, though :-(
-