Date   : Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:39:44 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: happy bunny

2009/7/16 Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99@...>:
> Alex Taylor wrote:
>> it, I surmised that I'd have nothing to lose by taking the top off the
>> drive and trying to get it spinning by hand. However, removing the lid
>> let out all the rusty water and exposed the surface-rust covered
>> platters.
>
> Urgh. I think my worst was the Fujitsu where all the coating had flaked off
> the magnets for the head actuator mechanism, not only jamming the heads but
> also coating the platters.
>


Eek some horror stories there.  Best I can manage is a full-height
ST506 type drive that would only read data if positioned upside down.
Even then I had trouble with a handful of sectors - after getting a
few read by tapping the drive just as it tried to read it, the last
few read ok if it were dropped onto the desk from a couple of inches,
as it tried ...  needless to say, it was junked after we finished ..

This would have been about 1992, give or take a couple of years, so
they were still almost current technology... certainly we had a lot of
clients out there with them in use.

I hope these ones are OK - the filestores visibly look fine, so I'm
hoping for the best..  waiting until I have a bit of time to spend
before I attack any of them though.

Rob