From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 16: 8:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5285515690 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 16:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA29441; Tue, 4 May 1999 01:08:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09523; Tue, 4 May 1999 01:08:01 +0200 Message-ID: <372E2D06.F3ADF6D5@eboa.com> Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 01:11:02 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: "K. Marsh" , "q's" , Gary Kline Subject: Re: Can SCSI disk be physically repaired? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 3 May 1999, K. Marsh wrote: > > > I have in my possession a 9Gb Mircopolis 3391NS SCSI hard disk that is not > > working. ... > > > > 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. Well, there are/were some firms that were specialised in repairing disk drives. Mostly for lifting off crucial data. That's the good news. The bad news is that you might end up with a $600 paperweight. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message