Unrecognized Hard Drive

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Jan 3 06:39:04 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 13:24 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> I can remember dropping a SCSI drive or two 4" to 6" onto the desk
> to free it up so it would spin up again. (Drop so it lands flat on
> its bottom, not sides or ends.) This was often necessary on drives
> that had run non-stop for years, and were shut down long enough to
> cool off.

/me wonders whether warming them up, first, would have helped?

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