[ale] hard disk troubleshooting

[James P. Kinney III]

Since it is griping on every read, the failure is in the head control
circuitry or the actual head connections are damaged. You _might_ be
able to get at the drive if it's just a damaged board by finding another
IDENTICAL drive and swapping the control board. 

I would argue that it probably time for a trip to the parts store.

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 10:47, Geoffrey wrote:
> So, I ran testdisk on this drive overnight, it just finished.  Seems it 
> complained that every read attempt failed.  This I don't understand. 
> Certainly, the whole drive couldn't go bad all at once.  I would have 
> expected complete failure would mean I could not access the thing at all.
> 
> Now it's wanting to create a partition, but it's empty. :(
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