HH drives

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Apr 14 00:33:00 2003

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Alan Greenstreet wrote:

> On Sunday, Apr 13, 2003, at 16:45 Pacific/Auckland, Don Maslin wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Alan Greenstreet wrote:
> >> Can anything be done to revive these disks or were they left unparked
> >> and now physically damaged?
> >>
> >> I have another 5.25" hard drive displaying the same unresponsive
> >> characteristics... are they all dead?
> >
> > Have you gone into the BIOS to see what the settings are for the
> > drives? Does the clock/calendar work properly? If not, the
> > battery may be dead and settings incorrect.
> >
> > - don
> >
> The BIOS reads date 1980 so the battery may be an issue. Using fdisk I
> can read the partition table and the attributes of the disk.
> A small victory: Through persistence I can now read the data in the
> extended partition but it is quite unreliable (sometimes reads
> sometimes not) - the disk makes a _lot_ of noise and quite obviously
> wants to be left alone...
> Not to be outdone I will try Spinrite.
>
> Another question - is it worth trying to save? Has anyone got any
> information on Wyse Technologies machines?

I fear that I cannot shed any light on the subject other than I
have heard of them. Basically a PC clone, I'd guess.

                                                - don

> The google thing didn't bring up much other than another collector
> stating it was a 386 server???
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan
Received on Mon Apr 14 2003 - 00:33:00 BST