Sadly I had the same thing happen. Maxell battery exploded and I did not notice
it before it corroded the heck out of my machine while in storage. Want to join
a class-action lawsuit against Maxell with me for making defective batteries?
LOL. I feel Maxell owes me a Mac IIci...!
Jon Gilbert,
I have a sick 40mb Fujitsu SCSI HDD from a Mac IIci. The drive spins up, makes
some initial healthy reading sounds, then starts to click loudly with about a
1-second interval between clicks. The type of clicking sound is almost more
like a knocking sound, and if you place a hand on the drive
Heads maybe sticking, sad to say it may just be done. Hardware Mac on here
makes scsi I to newer scsi hard drives if you wan something that will last a
bit.
From: vintagem...@jongilbert.com
Subject: Clicking 40mb Fujitsu SCSI HDD, ideas?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:13:51 -0700
To:
This is needle-in-haystack, but at times another identical drive (Fujitsu 40MB)
can be used to recover data if it's ultra precious to you.
Either the backing card can be placed on your hard drive, or in most extreme
circumstances, your platters in the other's hard drive for one last read.
Jeff
In my experience with hard drives, clicking as you describe pretty much
means it is toast...I don't think I've ever gotten one with such symptoms to
come back to life.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...I know that's not what you wanted to
hear!
Wesley
-Original Message-
From:
I've started working towards going through my computer collection and making
sure all batteries are removed...and it's been a depressing experience so
far. From what I've read, in the Mac world, Maxell batteries are bad news.
In the PC world, seems like everything I have with a non-button cell
I just picked up a Mac Classic from an ad on Craigslist last week. It rattled
when I carried it to my car from the seller's and I had the dread.
At home, I swiftly took it open and...the battery, a half-AA, had leaked
and rotted the + connector on the motherboard and rusted
part of the
There are a few odd tricks that might get it running. Easiest to try us simply
to turn the drive (or the whole computer) upside down and try booting. Another
even stranger is to freeze the drive as in put in the freezer for a few hours.
Try to connect it up before it warms up. I have an
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:16 PM, J.S. Garrison garriso...@yahoo.com wrote:
At home, I swiftly took it open and...the battery, a half-AA, had leaked
and rotted the + connector on the motherboard and rusted
part of the metal frame. It cleaned up ok, but now I have to ponder a
motherboard
