It is rarely PRACTICAL to repair a dead drive.
If it has important data on it, then repairing or swapping the board is
sometimes done. It is extremely rare that there would be a need
sufficient to justify opening the "bubble".
But, often, drives are identified as being dead or defective, when all
that they need is to redo the low level format.
On Fri, 3 May 2019, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
I have the opportunity to purchase some old 50-pin
SCSI, ESDI, MFM, RLL etc.
drives.
There is no way to test them, and there are no refunds.
There are no dents or obvious signs of damage, but that means noting.
Is there any way to resurrect these if they are dead/defective?
Any interest?
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
830-370-3239 cell
sales at
elecplus.com
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