On 12/9/05, Robert Eanes <rheanes3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If your controller is fouled then you will still be
> recieving i/o errors anytime it tries to read. I used
> to have this happen serveral times a month at one of
> the schools I worked at. We had 100's of drive of the
> same type and model. If it was the controller board
> (attached to the bottom of the drive), then we would
> just swap the board with another of the same kind.
> Aside from having another board to swap in, you could
> try to determine what the actual problem is. If one
> of the chips is too hot, and is freaking out after it
> warms up then you can try one of the following:
> attach a fan and heatsink or put drive in ziplock and
> put in freezer for 30-45 minutes.. boot up and
> retrieve data. I know it sounds kinda midevil but it
> has works numerous times for me in the past. The only
> other option is to send it out and have the platters
> mounted at a data recovery shop.
I happen to have an identical drive, but I have a feeling I will b0rk
it if I attempt to swap the controller boards.
> If it's hardware problem (heads crashed, platters
> scored) then you should be able to follow the advice
> given in this thread and recovery the data that
> doesn't reside on a platter with a bad head or parts
> of a platter that are scored.
>
> Another thing to note. Sometimes on older drives or
> brand new one, the armature sticks. New drives that
> have this problem are just suffering from faulty
> manufacturing. ie. they made the tolerances too tight.
> Older drives could have accumulated debree and now
> every time it trys to go past a certain point, you get
> an i/o error or the machine just stops still waiting
> of data from the drive. I don't know any way around
> this aside from a recovery shop, but the freezer
> things works sometimes on this problem too.
I may try the freezer trick. It's a new drive.
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