27 Jul
2012
27 Jul
'12
5:13 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Sander Reiche wrote:
Wanting to run the older Unices, I hunted around for a
working 286.
I sort of succeeded, except for the part that the sealant from the
original Connor harddisk probably didn't get enough air where the
laptop was situated for the past ten years and had gone fluid.
Messy.
I'm not sure why some of the early Connor hard drives did this, but it
appears that the rubber seal/o-ring they used breaks down and turns to
goo. It is an extremely common problem with their 20MB and 40MB IDE
drives, but I've not seen this happen with Connor drives over about 80MB.
This seems to be very similar to what we see with a lot of the self-stick
rubber feet on modems, external drives, and other peripheral devices
turning to goo.