Reviving old hard drives

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Jan 3 18:12:27 2005

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Barry Watzman wrote:
> One other note, some early Seagate drives (esp. ST-225, 238 and 251 series)
> are VERY sensitive to the voltage on the 12 volt rail, and the drive won't
> work (either the spindle or the servo system won't work) if the +12 volt
> supply is even one-quarter volt low.

The XT power supply is not very happy trying to power TWO ST4096 drives.
Received on Mon Jan 03 2005 - 18:12:27 GMT