[mythtvnz] Possibly off topic - HDD recovery

[Noel & Diane]

On 12/06/2014 7:09 p.m., criggie wrote:

>Thanks for the replies, the phrase "preaching to the converted" comes to 
>mind...along with thoughts of reincarnation of conversions and ones own 
>preachings....!!! I'll not bore the list with the series of partially 
>valid excuses.... Suffice to say its not a total loss, yet its still of 
>enough nuisance to warrant the three figure expenditure.... and no its 
>not a myth recording disc, however I know there will be listers in this 
>boat sooner or later who could be the meat in the sandwich getting some 
>serious pressure to fix similar....with WAF possibly the source of the 
>torque on the rack...!!!


Speaking of torque, I read an interesting article about frame distortion
in HDDs, causing head crashes 
& the clicks-of-death.  One of the methods discussed prior to physical
repair, was to back off the 
cover-screws a quarter turn and then re-torque them with a
"torquemaster" screwdriver.  Apparently
this fixed a number of the drives right there!
The article then went on to discuss swapping the platters to a known
good drive of an identical 
model type.
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