Dead (?) LCIII Hard Drive

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sabbo2001@hotmail.com - 25 Apr 2006 23:46 GMT

I have an 80MB hard drive from an LCIII - SCSI Quantum Prodrive ELS.

I also do not have a mac with which I could check if it is recognised
on the Mac.
The problem is as follows:

The drive is not recognised by my SCSI controller - BUT it IS
recognised by windows XP - the drive spins up and runs. Could this just
be that the SCSI controller will not look at the drive for some reason?
Or is the drive well and truly buggered?

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Howard S Shubs - 26 Apr 2006 02:41 GMT

> The drive is not recognised by my SCSI controller - BUT it IS
> recognised by windows XP - the drive spins up and runs. Could this just
> be that the SCSI controller will not look at the drive for some reason?
> Or is the drive well and truly buggered?

Depends. What does the XP system see? Can it initialize the drive and
store things on it?

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sabbo2001@hotmail.com - 26 Apr 2006 03:16 GMT

Drive is marked as "unreadable" by drive manager - it is detected as
being there, and it can show the drive-ID.

Also it shows the drive as being 0MB.

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Mike Rosenberg - 26 Apr 2006 13:40 GMT

> Drive is marked as "unreadable" by drive manager - it is detected as
> being there, and it can show the drive-ID.
>
> Also it shows the drive as being 0MB.

Let's see now... The LCIII doesn't see the drive at all, and the XP box
sees it but says it's unreadable and 0 MB. Right? Sounds dead to me.

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Howard S Shubs - 26 Apr 2006 15:57 GMT

> Also it shows the drive as being 0MB.

Sounds like the logic board on the drive lives, but the HDA (head/disk
assembly, the "disk" itself) is dead. Considering the age of an LCIII
and an 80MB drive, you got your money's worth from it. I hope you have
a good backup of it.

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Howard S Shubs - 26 Apr 2006 16:58 GMT

> Sounds like the logic board on the drive lives, but the HDA (head/disk
> assembly, the "disk" itself) is dead. Considering the age of an LCIII
> and an 80MB drive, you got your money's worth from it. I hope you have
> a good backup of it.

Further, just out of curiousity Sabbo, are you going to replace the
drive and keep using the LC3? Considering that they stopped making
those in 1994, I dare say you can get a better machine for less than the
cost of a replacement drive, if you want to.

But maybe you have software which won't work on a PowerPC?

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Bruce in Alaska - 27 Apr 2006 01:54 GMT

> Further, just out of curiousity Sabbo, are you going to replace the
> drive and keep using the LC3? Considering that they stopped making
> those in 1994, I dare say you can get a better machine for less than the
> cost of a replacement drive, if you want to.
>
> But maybe you have software which won't work on a PowerPC?

I would be willing to ship him a replacment drive for postage.....

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Dead (?) LCIII Hard Drive