Re: Mercury Megabank / Xebec

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <1144893134.102362.277900@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "zap777" <steve_zap777@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I just dug out this Mercury Megabank hard drive for my Apple and the
> hard drive no longer spins.  Underneath the drive is marked "Xebec
> 9710".  The controller checks out okay with the bundled diagnostics
> software but it indicates that the drive is not ready (no surprise
> there since the HD is not spinning :).  Anyway, I am trying to find out
> if anyone has or has ever heard of one of this drive or knows anything
> about either of these two companies.  I need to do some investigating
> here.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve
> 
Never heard of either, but your problem sounds like a classic case of 
"stiction" to me.

The "old time" remedy:

Power it up, and give it a couple sharp raps on the side of the platter 
housing with the *HANDLE* end of a hammer - Raps with the handle, not 
bashes with the head - You're trying to jar the heads unstuck, not punch 
a hole in the housing. I've found that *USUALLY*, a "front to back" rap 
works better than "side to side", but that isn't any sort of 
carved-in-stone rule.

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