Re: Warning, Archiver bug/Repairing hard drives...

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On 29 Apr 1999, Supertimer wrote:

> Fortunately, I backed up both the ProDOS and the
> HFS volume on Zip disks.  Or so I thought!  The
> Archiver backup of the ProDOS volume was corrupt!
> There is a bug in Archiver!  Luckily, my HFS backup
> was just a file by file copy.

Yea, I found that out many a moon ago.  It was general
knowledge on Genie at the time I was there and no one
recommended using it.

> I'm thinking of opening the hard drive to see if I can
> fix it.  I know it is sealed to prevent contamination,
> but I got nothing to lose.  I just need it to spin up for
> the time needed to back up the info on the drive.
> The case appears to be held together by several tiny
> torx head screws.  Any idea what I should be looking
> for when I have it open?

I have done this with a drive that was suffering from
severe sticktion problems once...opened up the drive
and gave the platters a boost and away it went.  It
did last long enough to get all the data off of it.

As for what you should look for...that's an unknown.
It's hard to tell what's wrong with the drive without
actually being able to play around with it.  It
could very easily be the drive motor which would make
it a lot more difficult to do anything with it.

Greg B.


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