You've just aggressively solved stiction of the spindle. Another way to
solve this is to hold the drive horizontal, centering your palm over the
spindle and twisting rapidly several times. Other people swear by
dropping them slightly.
Either way, the object is to jostle the spindle a little bit so it can
spin. There's some camps that think the motors of the drives are a bit
weak after time and can't actually spin them up, others believe its the
bearings getting crudded up.
I personally believe its the SCSI demons.
-Dan Wood
Mike Bybee wrote:
Well, just a quick update - I rejumped it ( trying all the settings ),
and I then noted that the drive wasn't spinning up. I removed the top
cover (invalidating the warranty! lol ) and noticed that the drive
didn't spin up at all. I naturally turned it off, spun the platters
around (by the axle, taking care not to touch the platter surface). I
powered it back on, and it spun up!
Well, I reassembled all of it, and the mac just booted perfectly off
the HD! Apparently it is system 6.0.7, so I upgraded it to 6.08.
Here's the current working jumper setting: s1: : : : | : : :
Thanks all
Mike Bybee
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