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Re: HD spins & dies



Drop it six inches onto a flat surface while it's powered up, then don't
turn it off again until it's backed up.  I know someone at work that's
restored a production server that way.

"Louis Cornelio" <clairmnt@n2.net> wrote in message
news:clairmnt-B6F6C5.21332706122002@news-server...
>
> hi folks
>
> my wife's old quadra seems to have died - yeah yeah i know this is A2 -
> but this is best place to find someone who may know tricks to spin up
> semi-dead SCSI drives.
>
> for what its worth - I put drive in expernal box & connected to another
> Mac - After HD speed tools & HD tool kit are the only things that could
> even see *something* was connected but they show 0 (zero) mb device &
> "device not ready"
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> thanks