Date: Mon, 9 Oct 89 08:05:06 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V2 #19 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 9 Oct 89 Volume 2 : Issue 19 Today's Topics: Can this disk be saved? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 20:46:17 EDT From: lemming!cspencer@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM (Cliff Spencer) Subject: Can this disk be saved? To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Here is my tale of woe: While installing my Maxtor XT 1140 in my Sun 2/120, I allowed it to rest on one of the little raised metal dimples that the drives bolt on to. When I applied power, instant meltdown of the ribbon cable inside the drive resulted. I replaced the ribbon cable, formatted the drive, voila: it works. Two or three weeks later, the drive suddenly goes south, platter #13 (of course) is dead (CRC ID error), and as I get further into the disk, the adjacent platters are also trashed (CANT READ SECTOR error). I reformatted the drive (what the heck..) and it worked again! I didn't really believe this, so I let the disk spin but didn't put any data on it. A day later the disk suddenly emits its power-on alignment chirp. That's the last I've seen of it, now when I try to boot it just goes "tick, tick, tick" and never comes up. My question is: did I fry the electronics or the Head/Drive Assembly? -Cliff Spencer ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************