Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:18:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Subject: Re: Can SCSI disk be physically repaired? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031318110.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.9905030926200.81528-100000@goodall2.u.washington.edu>
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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
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