24 Apr
2010
24 Apr
'10
11:28 a.m.
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, and it tries to walk off the table :-). Serious amount of moving
Right This reminds me of the time a friend got an old (even then)
high-speed idot matrix impact printer/ After every carrige return it
moved a little way across his workbench. And thus halfway through
printing a large file if fell off the bench (and carried on printing.).
Anyway, I think we can assume for the mom,ent that the head possitioner
in ytour drive is working peoperly.
A quick
update: The drive spins up, comes ready and is passing the seek
test in Morrow's FORMATHD.COM utility. The header read fails on all
Sinc this drive has a transparent cover, I assume you can see the heads
moving during the seek trst. mass involved!
What error do
you get if you try to read them? Does it manage to find
anything?
No, it fails 64 times to read every sector on every track. Yes, I'm planning to poke through it with a scope
tomorrow.
Let us know how you get on :-)
-tony