From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 09:51:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41E816A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:51:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5613B43D1D for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:51:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (52.80-202-129.nextgentel.com [80.202.129.52]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B11460ED; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:51:47 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <411E5EE7.5030603@broadpark.no> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:50:15 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: nb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul References: <411D9A9C.7050507@broadpark.no> <411D2FD6.3020004@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <411D2FD6.3020004@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Dead hard drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:51:14 -0000 Paul wrote: > Henrik W Lund wrote: > >> Has anyone got any clue as to what may have happened, and how one can >> go about accessing the drive? >> > Take the electronics board from a similar drive and use it to run your > bad drive. > > Does the drive at least spin up? Yes, the drive spins up perfectly. Sadly, it's quite an old drive, and I don't have any other drives like it (it's a 30GB IBM DTLA-307030), so I don't have any electronics boards that will fit. Oh well, I can at least leave it lying around, just in case. ;-) -Henrik W Lund