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Article #132Where to repair an old 42meg Q2040 Quantum hard drive ??
From: Eric Ho
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 05:12
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 05:12
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Does anyone out there know where can I go to if I want to repair (and recover data from) a bad 42meg Quantum Q2040 hard drive ? This is a rather old 8-inch drive I'm afraid. I think that some of the bearings are beginning to wear out -- it sounds a lot noiser (and the noise is coarser) than other Q2040's that I've when I power-up the system. This drive used to be on a Xerox D-machine and before it goes south, the system had a bad power-supply (the power-supply didn't just give out but the voltages were not right) so I'm not sure if this would do anything to arms (maybe they got stuck or something) -- the status code, I read when the system powers up now is that it couldn't find the drive or drive not ready when it tried to seek cylinder 0. BTW, does anyone know of any shops that have machines that read raw bits off the platters ? Any pointers appreciated. -- Eric Ho Princeton University eho@clarity.princeton.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!phoenix!phoenix.princeton.edu!eho From: eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs Subject: Where to repair an old 42meg Q2040 Quantum hard drive ?? Message-ID: <EHO.90Mar15001203@word.Princeton.EDU> Date: 15 Mar 90 05:12:03 GMT Sender: news@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Followup-To: comp.sys.xerox Distribution: comp Organization: Cognitive Science Lab. Princeton University. Lines: 20