[ltp] resurrecting a dead HD

[Dean L. Hedin]

Sounds like a problem that used to happen on older hard drives....
I think they called it "stiction"  where after sitting for a long time
the heads would fuse to the platter.  I had thought that most
modern drives pull the heads away from the surface after powerdown
to avoid the issue.   The reason I mention this is the fact that you 
state that it sounds like it is trying to spin the platter but does not.


On Friday 03 May 2002 04:17 pm, you wrote:
> Has anyone been able to successfully resurrect a dead TP hard drive?
>
> A while back, I bought a 3-gb (FRU P/N 45H8791) drive for my 760XL on ebay.
> It worked fine when the floppy drive was installed, but would not boot up
> (in fact caused the machine to make a loud whine) when the CD drive was in.
> When I put it in a 760EL, it worked fine both ways, so I installed Red Hat
> 7.2 on it and put it aside for a couple of months.

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