From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 13:18:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C14150E9 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07473; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:18:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "K. Marsh" Cc: "q's" , Gary Kline Subject: Re: Can SCSI disk be physically repaired? In-Reply-To: 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 On Mon, 3 May 1999, K. Marsh wrote: > 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? It's a paperweight. Micropolis went out of business. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message