[G4] Hard drive dead?

[Roger Harris]

Jon is not alone on this "randomly recur on my 450 DP with my 80G 
Maxtor". This has been a big problem on tower Macs from the Gs to the 
present. Boot problems also abound.

The failer to spin up is because the OS fails to mount the drive; It doe 
not mean the drive is dead.

I use to move the drives to different a BUS; wich sometimes helped, 
Temporarily.

Roger





MLaurint at Herc.com wrote:

>Roger:
>I normally boot into 9.2.2 from the eide buss anyway. The Quantum is my
>backup drive.
>I can use FWB tool kit utility and the ATTO software and see the volume,
>but the utilities says it's not available and to check the drive. I don't
>think the drive is spinning up. It doesn't show up in the Apple disc first
>aid program or Norton. I don't have silverlining lite.  I don't think it's
>spinning up. Is there a way to tell without physically removing the disc?
>
>Mark
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>If you have another drive on that Mac; boot to it and look at "devices"
>in the "Apple System Profiler" to see if the drive shows up. If it does
>you want to boot to OS9 on the working drive. Use a utility like La
>Cie's "Silverlining Lite" (works best for this) to find and mount the
>drive. Run Disk warrior and Norton.
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>You may also try the drive on something other than the Otto.
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>If you don't have Silverlining Lite contact me direct.
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>Roger
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>Mark Laurint wrote:
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>>Today my quantum atlas V attached to my Atto controller didn't come up on
>>the G4 sawtooth desktop. After opening the case, checking connections and
>>restarting, the drive makes a series of three clicks and sounds like it
>>doesn't spin up. Is the drive dead? Do I have any chances of reviving it
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>to
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>>save data?
>>Thanks in advance,
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