[OT] Useable BIOS RAID 1 on the cheap?

[Andy Armstrong]

On 18 Jan 2006, at 19:15, John Costello wrote:
> There was a series of SCSI drives used in Apple systems, 7100s or  
> 8100s I
> think, that had a fatal flaw.  The bearings would grind down over  
> time,
> but not crash the system.  When the drive was powered down, the  
> bearings
> would stick and the drive could not spin up.  The solution  
> (demonstrated
> to me by my boss) was to remove the drive, tap it three or four  
> times, and
> replace it.  The drive would spin up when powered up, and you had your
> chance to migrate the data.

Take the drive out, hold it horizontally from above and give it a  
quick spin with your wrist while it's trying to spin up. I've just  
been playing with an old laptop drive that gets itself going if you  
do that.

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net