[KLUG Members] Any way to read this disk?

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:03:19 -0500


On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:16:04AM -0500, Jamie McCarthy was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:


> Anyone know if there's any way to force spin-up of an IDE drive?

Adam once gave me this advice: power up the drive without automount,
then lift it about an inch and drop it.

I got a reputation as a miracle worker with that trick. ;-)

> I know the drive's probably dead, but... :(

Keep trying.

-- 
<kritical>  you need to learn how to figure out stuff yourself..
<Christin1> how do i do that? -- from bash.org