Surgery of HP RC3009 hard drive.

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Jan 18 16:50:57 1999

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, jax wrote:

> hello all, FNG again....
>
> Have received a HP RC3009 scsi-2 hard drive out of a older Dell server that
> is " kaput ".
>
> Yes, this model is NOT a classic (only 5 yrs old I think), so this is
> off-topic, my apologies to everyone and ask that those that can help
> contact me directly.
>
> Symptoms:
>
> Recognised and identified by scsi bus start up interegation proceedure on
> my machine (Adaptec controller).
>
> Drive spins up and seeks.
>
> Returns "no logical drives".

What does FDISK tell you about partitions?
                                                 - don
 
> Drive was displaying intermintant failures of this nature and the maintance
> people tried a low-level format which failed.
>
>
>
> Diagnosis:
>
> Failure of read head mechanism (possibly repairable) or failure of related
> controller circuitry ( paper weight time ! )
>
>
>
>
> Anyone know where I can get info on this model ?
>
>
>
>
> jax_at_tvec.net
>
>

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