3 Nov
2006
3 Nov
'06
3:59 a.m.
Jay West wrote:
Since I don't know anything about RA81's yet
(have never used them or
opened one up), and because I do intend to keep one or two of the drives
running (a few don't say "bad hda" on them), can someone tell me what
parts I should scavange off the dead ones that are worth keeping as
spares?
Hmm, I seem to remember list wisdom was that the spindle sensors on the
underside of the drives go bad all the time - it's certainly worth rescuing
those, but are you sure that the reason for the 'bad hda message' isn't
something like this (rather than catastrophic mechanical failure or something
which would require opening the drive case up?).
I seem to recall that we replaced a spindle sensor on one of our drives with a
more modern part (I seem to recall doing a bit of hacksawing and gluing to it
so that it'd mount on the drive case properly)
I certainly would have thought that it's worth your while to make up as many
good units as possible out of the bits, unless you know that the failures
aren't fixable already. As I recall the drive's on-board diags are pretty good
(as are the manuals - I'm pretty sure there were comprehensive test procedures
in there)
but they are clearly dead
How do you know?
cheers
Jules