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Re: AI InnerDrive help needed
LA County Outdoor Science School (lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu) wrote:
: I just picked up a couple of AI InnerDrive 40 internal hard drives
: recently. One of them had a few errors or it that were fixable and it is
: now running like a champ. The other one will not even take a format. It
: appears to have some serious I/O errors even though the self-test says
: OK. What are the possibilities of finding a mechanism to replace the
: busted one in the drive/powersupply unit? Do I need to find a 40 meg, or
: could I upgrade to an 80 or higher? I'm assuming it is an IDE drive,
: correct? I've heard of people replacing the mechanism with a SCSI drive
: and then hooking it up to a SCSI card. Are there any instructions out
: there on how to do that? Or, is there anybody that is good at repairing
: these things?
Actually, I'm having the same problem right now. The only thing it says
during the surface test is Read Error - Check InnerDrive User Manual for
mor information (or something like that.) Here is what I do know:
1) The 20/40 Meg InnerDrives are IDE, the 100 Meg was SCSI
2) The drive size is hard coded into the controller
And I don't think that the 20/40 IDs were standard IDE. The drive in the
unit is a WD 40 meg drive, and I hear that they are going pretty cheap
these days. I was thinking about checking out a PC newsgroup to see if
anyone wanted to sell one, but the more I think about it, I might just
buy a RAMFAST, and a 1 Gb drive and either try to make it internal, or
just scrap the whole thing, and go external.
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