Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Tue Jul 29 12:01:55 2003

----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Davies" <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk


> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:58, Roger Bisson wrote:
> > I have an old Quantum Lightning 540 AT hard disk
> > containing some data I want to retrieve. The drive
> > itself was removed from a computer some years ago
> > (about 7 or 8 years), working as far as I remember.
> >
> > However, now, having tried to install the drive in a
> > more modern machine to archive the data to CDR, the
> > drive while recognized by the machine and the drive
> > itself spinning up and apparently working returns a
> > "hard disk read failure" error.
>
> > Can anybody point me in the direction of any good
> > information regarding the testing/diagnosis/repair of
> > head-disk-assembly problems?
>
> I've had some success using the old "place the drive in a sealed plastic
> bag and refridgerate for a couple of hours" trick.
>
> No guarantees though!
> --


Wasnt there a problem in the old days of IDE on pc's where a drive formatted
on one controller had to be reformatted on a different brand controller to
work? Also was the HD formatted with one of those programs that allowed
larger drives to work with systems that couldnt normally use them? Were you
using stacker or some other compression software on this hd?


The oldest IDE drive I have thats being used at all is a 500mb conner drive,
and it spins up and works fine on newer hardware. Make sure you using auto
detect in the bios or try changing the method your machine uses to read the
drive (LBA, 32 bit access, pio modes etc)
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 12:01:55 BST