Re: Fix a Sider???

[mcgr0062@gold.tc.umn.edu (Daniel W. McGrath)]

In article <3rho2e$d4e@agate.berkeley.edu>, hyolee@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU 
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>I have a old old Sider 10 harddrive working with my IIGS.
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>But the HD finally died and will not spin when I turn on the power.
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>Where can I get a replacement for the Sider?  Is it like an IDE 
>interface?  Maybe MFM?  Maybe I can just swap the HD out...
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>Is it possible?
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>__Hyo
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If it IS the Drive that's bad, not the power supply, I'm sure you can 
replace it. I have a sider 10 meg that is a SCSI drive (Seagate, I think). 
 If there are any old IBM unk dealers in your area, ask if they have an 
old 10/20 meg scsi HD. I'm sure you could get it cheap.

The seagate drives sometimes tend to "stick" so the disk wont spin up. If 
you take the cover off your sider, you can rap a few times on the drive 
with the handle of a screwdriver to get it rolling. (It also makes you 
feel better sometimes)

My Sider is not autoparking, so be sure you park your heads when you power 
down, or you will hammer your boot sector to death!