20 Oct
2016
20 Oct
'16
9:23 a.m.
The two disks this morning went much better. I tried using a heat gun on the outside of
the hda and VERY
gently freed the heads and got the spindle to turn. Then I pulled the top board and coaxed
the spindle motor
back up to speed. The root disk read without errors, usr has a consistent 28.
The same experiment didn't work on the usr disk from the first system though :-(
At least now I have a good root image and probably usuable usr
On 10/20/16 2:05 AM, jim stephens wrote:
I actually years ago unstuck drives by removing
them, hooking them to cables long enough to allow me to have access to
them external to the system with power, and just holding them in the air and giving them
a sharp twist around the axis
of the drive. That was enough to unstick most.