Re: CMS Hard Drive repair

[tim@harlequin.com (Tim McNerney)]

   From: sjensen@eis.calstate.edu (Steve Jensen)
   Date: 3 Mar 1994 22:18:49 -0800

   I have a 60 meg CMS drive that I would like to get analyzed and repaired.
   Can anyone suggest a person or company that would be likely to do this?

If you are hoping to recover your data off the drive, that's one thing, but
it just isn't cost effective to repair 60Mb drives anymore.  You can get
used ones for less than the cost of repair.  You might even find someone
who is throwing one out.  Ask around before you spend money on a repair.

I've seen ads for disk repair places in Nuts and Bolts magazine (a Ham
Radio/Computer Equipment Want Advertiser), but they'll probably tell you
the same thing.  Look in other PC magazines, the ones geared for resellers.

One thing you should definitely double check is that the power supply
hasn't failed.  Pull the disk out of its enclosure and temporarily install
it in a friend's.  If that works, buy another enclosure, install it there,
and you're done.  Enclosures (w/power supply and fan) cost between $80 and
$150.

Enclosure are also called "hard drive conversion kits" because people take
their internal drives and "convert" them to be external drives.  Here are
some vendors:

Relax Technology
  3101 Whipple Ave.
  Union City, CA  94587
  (415) 471-6112

  Case External HD conversion kit
  Half high 5.25"
  Includes SCSI D25->Centronix50 cable
  Fan, SCSI Device select
  $99 + $5.25 shipping (ground)
  Salesman: Guy

Quadramation, Inc.
  1120 Stewart Ct. Suite L
  Sunnyvale, CA  94086
  (408) 733-5557
  800 733-7887 (Orders Only)

  $117 HD Kit w/cables (metal case)

Good luck!

--Tim