[tech] unisfa mac hard drive

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Sat Feb 1 22:29:05 WST 2003


On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:21:28PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> I took the hard drive out of the unisfa mac on thursday and tried it
> nautilus, however, nautilus didn't boot (probably because of IDE
> primar5y/slave conflicts). The drive did make a nasty clicking sound
> however. Is there someone with a mac with IDE who wants to investigate
> further? I was goign to try it in the 7200 that will be the new unisfa
> mac, but it only has scsi. The drive is currently being cooled down in the
> coke machine.

The mac I just replaced had an equally dead IDE mac hard drive with
funny clicky sound symptoms... Though I managed to get its image and
I'll run Norton or DiskWarrior over it when I get a hold of a copy.
I'll do this one at the same time. Is there anything valuable on the
disk?

Bernard.

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