You've most likely thought of this, but have you tried to set it up in a
computer that works as a secondary drive? That way you don't have to
try to boot from it and if it spins up and doesn't crash you have a good
chance of copying the data to the primary hard drive.
Kinda crazy how all the drives that were installed in your machine are
going nuts. Could there be a problem with the SCSI controller?
Jonathan
John Tiedeman wrote:
> (1) Seagate ST380013A. Bought at BB, still under warranty so I took it
> there to be checked. They couldn't get it to come up either. If it
> would, they would pull data to a DVD for $90, and there is some on it
> that had never been backed up (mostly saved e-mail) and some that hadn't
> been backed up as recently as usual. When I try to boot from it, it
> hangs at GRUB. I can't get it to take a reload. Is anyone else likely to
> be able to extract data before I send it back to Seagate for a replacement?
>
> (2) WD600. Has been unusable since May, when I bought (1) above to
> replace it. Any ideas on trying to get it to do something? It doesn't
> even get to GRUB.
>
> (3) ST340016A. Don't remember when bought. Was working until after the
> above problem with (1) started. Moving it from one computer to another
> has caused kernel panic in either computer. No data I really need here,
> but if the disc is repairable I can always use it, if only as a spare.
>
> That leaves me with only a very old 3G drive, loaded with w2k and an old
> HP OmniBook loaded with w95 to access the internet. The OmniBook, of
> course, is impossibly slow. I hope that Windows vulerabilities are
> reduced to a tolerable level working through a Siemens 5360 ethernet
> bridge, Siemens 2614 router, and Firefox 1.0PR.
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