-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vintage Macs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: Mac SE no boot disk
>
>
>RomRider wrote:
>
>> Your going to think i'm nuts by saying this but I had to give the side of
my
>> 40meg SCSI drive a
>> good whack to get it to boot up after it had siezed up...
>
>That is a stiction issue and is totally normal...we don't think you're
nuts.
>I've done it myself several times.
>
>-- Kyle H. Hansen
Many's a time I've danced around the room twist-shaking a stuck
hard drive. It looks goofy, but it frees the drive long enough to copy it's
contents to a better one. In one extreme case, I took the top off a drive
and spun it by hand, with an external connected, to save the data.
Jeff
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