Re: Corvus HD replacement question

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

Paul Grammens wrote in message <39c5120f@news1.svn.net>...
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>Ernest <ernestls@home.com> wrote in message
>news:vy5x5.90494$Ur3.1082362@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com...
>> What type of HD does the big white external Corvus drive use? SCSI? SASI?
>> IDE? The reason that I'm asking is that a guy that I know has one but the
>HD
>> seems to be dead, and he offered it to me but I'm not sure if I want to
>take
>> it if I can't find a HD to use with it. I haven't seen it, or tested it
>yet
>> but it has the controller card and cable.
>>
>> Are there other HDs that will work in this case?
>>
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>You could always look inside for the manufacturer and model information.
>What was pretty common is taking an mfm drive and attaching it to some
other
>interface.
>Even some of the 3rd party SCSI drives for the Mac Plus used common mfm
>drives attached to a SCSI interface.
>
>Also, it's quite common for old drives to develop stiction from sitting.
>Turn it on and listen for the sound of the drive spinning up. If it doesn't
>spin up, good chance that it's just stiction (of course, it could be just
>plain dead...).
>
>The way I deal with that is to use the inertia of the platters to try and
>break them loose: remove the drive, grab it and give it a pop with your
>wrist. Then connect the power and see if it will spin up. I've heard of
>people pounding on the drive, I wouldn't recommend that...
>
>And please don't convert it to something else, surely it's worth a lot more
>broken with some hope of repair than it would be converted to a common SCSI
>drive.
>-Paul
>
I haven't seen the drive yet. I've just heard about it. If I do switch the
drive out, I would save the old one but I'll try your wrist flip advice
first. I hope that's all that's wrong with it. I'm curious to see if there
is any cool software on the old drive.

E