12 May
2015
12 May
'15
11:19 a.m.
Yeah, whacking a Winchester drive to deal with stiction is an old computer
repair trick... I consider it kind of a last resort but I bet all ... most
... of us have used the technique once or twice to some success :O
Best,
Sean
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:33 PM, js at cimmeri.com <js at cimmeri.com> wrote:
On 5/12/2015 12:30 PM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
"Hitting console with hammer: $1
Head stiction is a very common problem on older drives.. particularly
MFM... especially if they've been sitting for a long while. I do this
all the time.
- J.
"Knowing where to hit it: $999
Yes thats right. I've thought about where to slam before slamming to
that
drive and I've used an rubber hammer.
I think this solution (on a still standing disk) is far better than
opening
it outside of a clean atmosphere..
Regards,
Holm