Dead PATA and SCSI HDDs

[twillkickers]

Anyone interested in old dead drives? I have a Seagate ST3120A and a Conner Peripherals CP-3104. The Seagate does nothing when I attempt to use it and the Conner sometimes recognizes but it is dodgy and barely works at all. Anybody have a use for these? I also have a few Apple ones lying around, if anyone is interested I will dig those out as well.

 

[legalize]

Disassemble to show kids what a hard drive platter looks like?

 

[KC9UDX]

Every once in a while it would be nice to have a cache of dead drives to swap parts. But collecting random dead hard drives seems problematic.

I have one right now that the drive, which has some things I'd like to recover on it, works, but the controller card on it is cooked.

 

[twillkickers]

Every once in a while it would be nice to have a cache of dead drives to swap parts. But collecting random dead hard drives seems problematic.

I have one right now that the drive, which has some things I'd like to recover on it, works, but the controller card on it is cooked.

What's a good way to tell whether it's the platter or the controller card?

 

[KC9UDX]

What's a good way to tell whether it's the platter or the controller card?

When the drive is very hot it will boot just enough to get to NetBSD single-user mode.

When it's cold it doesn't respond on the IDE bus. As it warms up it gradually starts to work.

 

[twillkickers]

Again if anybody wants these, I can send them for the cost of shipping. Otherwise I'm probably just going to pitch them.

 

[Stone]

They've got some really powerful neodymium magnets in them.

 

[Fastopen]

hello, still have the conner?