From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 9:35:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F13814C4F for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durang@u.washington.edu) Received: from goodall2.u.washington.edu (durang@goodall2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.168]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id JAA33748; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:34:34 -0700 Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id JAA80092; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:34:34 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Marsh" To: "q's" Cc: Gary Kline Subject: Can SCSI disk be physically repaired? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have in my possession a 9Gb Mircopolis 3391NS SCSI hard disk that is not working. I did fine for almost a year, until the power supply fan stopped and the power supply overheated and gave up. After replacing the power supply, the BIOS SCSI utility reported very many bad sectors and re-mapped them. I gave up on that and did a complete low-level format, which went fine for several minutes, but then stopped with errors. Now the drive in completely inaccessible. It winds up to speed at boot, there's a little disk activity, and then it winds back down and repeats several times. My machine will not boot anymore with this disk installed. The disk is beyond warranty, and Micropolis is out of business. Is there a way to get this disk repaired, or do I have a $300 paperweight? Thanks in advance, Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message