From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 17:34:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.he.net (ruby.he.net [216.218.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B127637B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by ruby.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id RAA12736; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:34:30 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:34:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8.billschoolcraft.com To: Burton Windle Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replace harddrive ? Toshiba 1715-XCDS ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Tue, 29 May 2001 it looks like Burton Windle composed: BW-->You realized that there is a 99% chance that opening the case of your hard BW-->drive will completly ruin the drive, right? The heads are *so* close to BW-->that platters that dust, etc can totally screw them up. Unless you are a BW-->trained person, in a clean-room/ESD-free area, I bet you toast the drive. BW--> Well after a trip to a downtown San Francisco Toshiba contractor, he took one look at the 1715 and said: "NOPE, sorry.... the 1600 and 1700's are not like any other Toshiba's, we can't work on them!" They are apparently only to be opened "AT" Toshiba. A followup call to two (Toshiba) company rep outlets suggested an external drive if needed. The site I found showed instructions for all the Toshiba's except the 1600's and 1700's http://www.bixnet.com/toshiba2.html -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message