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 Last week my Seagate 296N decided that it wanted to keel over and die.
I've had the drive for close to 5 years, and used it nearly every day
then.

 The drive wouldn't spin up, until I turned the platter. I figured the
lubrication gummed up the heads and was preventing it from spinning. 
(I spun the platter via the ratchet disk on the bottom of the drive,
not by opening it up.)

 However, when the hard drive spins up, it blinks the drive light
eight times. My computer reports that it can't find the drive on the
SCSI port, so I can't re-format it or otherwise salvage it via software
tools.

 I know that hard drives have a limited lifetime, but it's a bummer
that it only lasted 5 years wheras my other 3 MFM drives (on various
computers) lasted 8 years and are still going strong.

 Is there any hope for this drive, or is it only good for an art
project?

 If I have to buy another SCSI drive, is Seagate a good brand, or should
I consider a different brand?

                                                         Thanks,


                                                             Derrick 
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