Re: HD Size Limit on RamFAST?

["Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

Everyone ... Thanks all for the stiction info.... after letting it sit
overnight it spun back up and I have salvaged all the data off it....so from
now on it will strictly be used as a test disk.

Glenn

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> In article <0U9da.1444$eb1.96672@typhoon.sonic.net>, Andy McFadden
> <fadden@fadden.com> writes:
>
> >Glenn Jones <rg.jones@rogers.com> wrote:
> >> Andy, any idea what part of the HD goes when it won't spin up anymore?
Can
> >> ity be fixed? Probably cost more than getting another one.
> >
> >The problem was most likely "stiction", where lubrication breakdown
> >prevents the drive from spinning.  I was able to recover two out of
> >three drives by performing minor mechanical feats (spinning it quickly
> >and abruptly by hand to try to loosen it; tapping on it with a
screwdriver
> >while applying power), but I only kept them running long enough to get
> >the data transferred over.
>
> In fact, since the problem is almost always lubrication, compounded
> by the static friction of the super-smooth head with the super-smooth
> disk, if you get it going, then let it run, so it warms up, you will
usually
> experience a good life extension.  This was a case where turning the
> disk off was much worse for it than leaving it running.
>
> BTW, modern disks have no such lubrication problem, and the static
> "stiction" problem has been engineered around, too.
>
> -michael
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