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I have three Micropolis 1558 ESDI drives which function perfectly except
that the bearings are shot from old age. I believe at least two of the
drives only need the bearings to be re-lubricated, while one is probably
unrepairable.

All three work fine otherwise, and are perfectly usable when plugged into
a system, but obviously with defective bearings their life is considerably
debatable.

I have not tried removing all of the electronics to see if I can get at
the lower bearing housing, but has anyone successfully re-lubricated
bearings on these drives? I don't want to get rid of them, since there's
about 1 gigabyte of storage capacity between the three of them. But at the
same time I'd like to know if they are capable of being made reliable or
not. 

Please post your thoughts, ideas, solutions, etc...

Regards,

Craig.

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