7 Jun
2004
7 Jun
'04
4:45 a.m.
Maybe not -- it's apparently not bootable. Dead
disk, it seems.
From the description, it sounds like it is just another
dead Apple SCSI
drive. I have gone thru stacks of these 40 and 80 MB drives from
Apple
(all Conner I believe, just like the one pictured). They seem to have
motor failures and stop spinning.
But the Portable uses a standard 3.5" SCSI drive, so it is fairly trivial
to swap the drive. Granted it lessens the "value" if it carries a
different drive, but since I've already been outbid, I'll stick with the
idea that it will exceed my price threshold before it sells. :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
7 Jun
7 Jun
4:57 a.m.
I have a vague recollection that the old 40/80MB Connor & Quantum SCSIs
had "stiction" problems back around '90 +/-2 yrs or so, too far back
for me to remember clearly, but I recall situations where depending on
how warm a drive was it would randomly spin up or not & tricks that
could force it (to get a backup). In any case, if the only thing wrong
is a bad drive, that is fixable. Not that I see any real use in such a
beast. But for those interested.... just be sure you can find a working
drive to replace it & a copy of the OS for it (probably System 6 or 7).
Cheers!
-j
On Jun 7, 2004, at 9:45 AM, chris wrote:
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Maybe not --
it's apparently not bootable. Dead disk, it seems.
From the description, it sounds like it is just
another dead Apple
SCSI
drive. I have gone thru stacks of these 40 and 80 MB drives from Apple
(all Conner I believe, just like the one pictured). They seem to have
motor failures and stop spinning.
But the Portable uses a standard 3.5" SCSI drive, so it is fairly
trivial
to swap the drive. Granted it lessens the "value" if it carries a
different drive, but since I've already been outbid, I'll stick with
the
idea that it will exceed my price threshold before it sells. :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
7:41 a.m.
Maybe not --
it's apparently not bootable. Dead disk, it seems.
From the description, it sounds like it is just another dead Apple SCSI
drive. I have gone thru stacks of these 40 and 80 MB drives from Apple
(all Conner I believe, just like the one pictured). They seem to have
motor failures and stop spinning.
But the Portable uses a standard 3.5" SCSI drive, so it is fairly trivial
to swap the drive. Granted it lessens the "value" if it carries a
different drive, but since I've already been outbid, I'll stick with the
idea that it will exceed my price threshold before it sells. :-)
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