[ale] hard disk troubleshooting

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Since it is griping on every read, the failure is in the head control
> circuitry or the actual head connections are damaged. You _might_ be
> able to get at the drive if it's just a damaged board by finding another
> IDENTICAL drive and swapping the control board. 

That's exactly what I thought about doing.

> 
> I would argue that it probably time for a trip to the parts store.

Yeah, I figured as much. Thanks for the verification.

Folks need to check out testdisk, it is one sweet tool. Fits on a floppy 
as well.

> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 10:47, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>So, I ran testdisk on this drive overnight, it just finished.  Seems it 
>>complained that every read attempt failed.  This I don't understand. 
>>Certainly, the whole drive couldn't go bad all at once.  I would have 
>>expected complete failure would mean I could not access the thing at all.
>>
>>Now it's wanting to create a partition, but it's empty. :(
>>
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