23 Oct
2015
23 Oct
'15
9:08 a.m.
On 10/23/15 12:04 AM, Josh Dersch wrote:
The 2190 does not, and it fails in precisely the same
way I've personally seen three or four other Maxtor drives of the same era fail: It
spins up fine, but when it goes to load the heads, it sounds
like the voice coil positioner for the heads is "screaming" -- it emits a
high-pitched, quite loud whine/buzz which persists until you power the drive down. The
drive is unresponsive during this time.
Sounds like a failure of the positioner servo. It is on a separate platter.
It should be possible to build something to open the servo loop and position the heads
externally. One of those projects that I would like to get to some day. I have about 50
Maxtor ESDI drives from Apollo's build system that I REALLY want to get the data off
of
and I suspect there will be the same sort of problem with them.