Well, my PB1400 had been freezing up occasionally, I thought it was 'cos I was running Outlook and Eudora and Mozilla a lot at the same time :) but it failed to come back one time, and the HD is not spinning up....it tries but fails to come up to speed.
I have a spare 10 gig IDE that I can install to boot from, and a PC Card to laptop IDE adapter I'm borrowing, my thoughts were to put a big ol' SCSI drive on the back of this, boot to the 10 gig drive, then spend a long time putting the adapter in to the PCMCIA slot over and over again trying to get the 20 gig drive to spin up and once up, grab everything quickly. If it ever comes up again. I'm worried that my "occasional lockups" were my warning signs that I should have used for my backup opportunities.
Anyway I don't know if there's a point in doing the freezer thing or anything with these comparatively newer drives; it's one of the quit, fluid bearing IDE drives, 3 or 4 years old. .sigh.
Anyway 7.6.1 (the only installer CD I can find at the moment- my computer room is a shambles) is installing on the 1400 at the moment, after which I'll pop on the SCSI drive and start with the PCMCIA cable adapter thing.
Other suggestions welcome! Freezing and flinging (rotationally) I'll leave until a last resort... mostly just checking to see if there's a new trick for newer drives.
thanks,
Brian
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