12 May
2015
12 May
'15
11:36 a.m.
Holm Tiffe wrote:
Yes guys, it's true.
I've successfully "repaired" the drive with an careful hit from a
rubber-hammer!
I am pretty blown away! Hard to believe that a disk can be fixed with that
kind of treatment!
But I shouldn't be. Remember that scene in one of the early Stars Wars movies
where they go to make the jump to hyperspace (or something like that), and
nothing happens, and Hans gets up and whacks the bulkhead in a very
particular spot, and then it works?
I first saw that movie with a couple of people from the MIT computer lab, and
we were all convulsed with laughter at that scene. One of our mainframes had
a sticky power relay, and when you hit the 'power off' on the front console,
nothing would happen. So you'd walk around to the back of the machine, open a
door, and give a particular box a good whack in a particular way with your
fist, and it would power off.
Some things just never change!
Noel
12 May
12 May
11:41 a.m.
On Tue, 12 May 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
nothing would happen. So you'd walk around to the
back of the machine, open a
door, and give a particular box a good whack in a particular way with your
fist, and it would power off.
"Hitting console with hammer: $1
"Knowing where to hit it: $999
1:30 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 12 May 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
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
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nothing would happen. So you'd walk around to
the back of the machine,
open a
door, and give a particular box a good whack in a particular way with your
fist, and it would power off.
"Hitting console with hammer: $1
"Knowing where to hit it: $999
1:33 p.m.
On 5/12/2015 12:30 PM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
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.
"Hitting console with hammer: $1
"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 
2:19 p.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
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