12 Oct
2015
12 Oct
'15
2:57 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Afternoon all,
This may be forgotten knowledge - or perhaps more likely, something that was
never known in the first place - but are there any typical failure modes of
ST506/412-type drives (beyond the obvious mechanical damage between heads
and platters)?
I had a Tandon TM602S refurbed in the 1990s because it was the mech
from a Commodore D9060 drive (and we didn't yet
know that a Seagate
ST225 would drop-in without firmware changes, though at 5MB of
capacity used). The specific fault with the one I had was a bad track
zero sensor. It required opening the HDA, so I had it done by a
repair house. ISTR it was well under $100 since I wasn't fiddling
with the platters.
-ethan