29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
11:28 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:42:20PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
I've seen the sticking problem you mentioned on
lots of old SCSI discs,
I've solved it before by power cycling them lots, i'l try the mallet trick
next time it happens, cheers!
I've always heard of the mallet solution, but I chickened out whenever i
had to do it. A safer way I read about - hold the drive so that the
spindle is parallel to your arm. Wit a few sharp twists of your wrist,
sprin the drive back and forth around the spindle. The back and forth
motion would decongeal the grease and things could power on normally
again.
The mallet is 10,000 times cooler though ::-)
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