RE: Clicking SCSI disks

2020-09-07 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
in a clean room... Dave G4UGM > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Bill Degnan via > cctalk > Sent: 07 September 2020 18:39 > To: anto...@acarlini.com; Antonio Carlini ; General > Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Clicking SCSI dis

Re: Clicking SCSI disks

2020-09-07 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
Antonio Carlini wrote: So I thought I'd tap the wisdom of the list. Is there any way that people have used to successfully recover data from RZ28, RZ29 disks (which all worked in 2003 :-))? Has anyone tried freezing a double bagged drive? Was it successful? If so, how long did you freeze it

Re: Clicking SCSI disks

2020-09-07 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:57 PM Antonio Carlini via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I have a number of old (2000-era) DEC StorageWorks disks that fail to > mount under VMS. They report MEDIUM OFFLINE. > > They power up in a similar way to other disks that do work, but they > persistently

Clicking SCSI disks

2020-09-07 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
I have a number of old (2000-era) DEC StorageWorks disks that fail to mount under VMS. They report MEDIUM OFFLINE. They power up in a similar way to other disks that do work, but they persistently click ina  "something isn't right" manner. I've tried reorienting some of the disks to see if