Re: Help needed for reviving Widget hard drive

Hello Jason,

after trying to boot 4-5 times, I was finally able to boot from the disk !! It seems that you were right and that it was due to some mechanical problem that fixed by itlself by letting the drive turn for some time. Thanks for your simple and efficient idea !!

Jack.

On Aug 12, 10:56 pm, "Jason Perkins" <perkins.ja..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> Jack,
>
> My Widget was doing this when I got my Lisa. I tried cleaning connections,
> made sure the brake on the head wasn't stuck, etc... but nothing worked.
> Finally in frustration I grabbed the head motor and moved it around
> violently as the drive was on... and it started working!
>
> After you have eliminated all other possible faults perhaps try moving the
> head around manually while the drive is on. Now that might also break the
> drive forever, but if it's already broken...
>
> -Jason
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:41 AM, CallMeJack <callmejack2..._at_email.domain.hidden>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I have one 10Mb Widget hard drive and one Sunrem 20Mb hard disk that
> > show the same symptoms : when I power the Lisa 2/10, the disk start to
> > spin but it is not accessible. It makes a strandge noise, like if
> > there was a crc arror and that the head was trying to access the some
> > area again and again (around 1 second interval). I tried to use the
> > LisaTest but it can't see the drive either. Note that I have a widget
> > drive that works fine on that Lisa, so the problem does not come from
> > the Lisa.
>
> > Any suggestion ?
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > Jack- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

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