Re: [Nolug] Non-functioning disc drives

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:26:57 -0500
  Jonathan Schwehm <jonathan@figstreet.com> wrote:
> 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

These aren't SCSI drives; they're ATA. Just the act ov moving them seems to
be destructive!
>
> 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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