[ale] [OT] Seeking Maxtor Hard Drive (was WD HD)

[William Bagwell]

On Friday 31 December 2004 04:26 pm, Alan Dobkin wrote:

> I am in a similar situation as Tom was a few weeks ago and am looking
> for a Maxtor 10 GB IDE HD to replace the electronics. ?The drive is a
> model 91080D5 and seems to be dated 120597 (not sure if that's a date,
> as in 12/05/1997, or just a coincidental code). ?I will also gladly pay
> for the drive either to buy it or just borrow it to transfer the data
> off.

Seems to be a trend... Had intended to reply back to the list about this. 
I'm the one who had the spare 10 GIG which matched Tom's. Brought it in 
from the barn and let it warm up to room temperature overnight. Booted it 
the next morning, posted to the list that it was working... and it died 
less than five minutes later! Fortunately for him I had a second one 
(identical but still in use) and  decided I no longer trusted it. So the 
story had a happy ending;

"[...] went to the client's site, moved the drive electronics from 
your drive to theirs (peeling back the foam layer, I could see a burned 
area on their circuit board), I was then able to mount the drive in 
Knoppix and copy over 600 MB of precious files to an external USB 
drive.   Need I mention they were thrilled?"

Hope you find one.
-- 
William