[Coco] Looking for "C" utils

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

If this was football season I would say "Punt".

I banged hard many times on my first Hard Drive to get it to spin, a Seagate 
one that I had to drive over the hill to get formatted with 256 byte 
sectors.

With 256 Byte sectors no data recovery company will help you.

Unless you get very luckily you may be dead in the water with no rescue 
possible.

I have searched in vain for "rcr".

If and only if you have all the source and libs (Source for unusual ones) 
then asking the previous owner for help might unearth "rcr".

Otherwise, go onto another task. IMHO

But then:

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Floor spin it
pjrobertz at ...7th Feb 2008

Seagate drives like this one had a common problem Seagate tech support 
called "a stiction problem". The spindle would get stuck, possibly because 
the lubricant used would coagulate. All you had to do to correct this was 
disconnect the drive from its cables, and put it on the floor, PCB side up, 
and give it a strong flick of the wrist. Usually spinning it around created 
enough centrifugal force to get the platters spinning again.

When I bought used MFM and RLL hard drives, I'd pay less for one which had 
circular scratches on the top of the case, since I suspected they had to be 
revived by the floor spin method.

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SHF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Looking for "C" utils


> Stephen, when I recieved the system, I couldn't get the HDs up. After 
> later inspection, it seems that through the years a screw had worked loose 
> and was rattling around. Apparently in shipping the screw was sent flying 
> around. When I opened the case, the screw had lodged on the power supply 
> board and shorted it. I have a temp PS from a very old IBM server going 
> but it 's older than the drives and seems flakey. It measures ok with a 
> meter but I think it fluctuates as it heats up. I can usually read H0 for 
> about 30 mins then I loose it due to loss of speed. H1 will not spin up 
> fast enough to pass the speed test at all. These are Seagate ST-225s on a 
> Burke & Burke interface. My floppie drives all seem to suffer some 
> problems... all so similar that makes me wonder if there's a Coco problem. 
> The only drive I have stable at the moment is a 3.5" 80trk. I'm trying to 
> get as much of the stuff from the HDs as I can before I can no longer read 
> them. And yes, all the old disks seem to ha
> ve at least some bit rot if not comepletely lost already. This system has 
> a Disto 2meg board(s) and I'm beginning to wonder if there's a bad memory 
> chip as well.
>
>
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