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From: boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Dead Rodime drive
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Date: 26 Oct 89 17:02:29 GMT
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Hi.
	My ~2 year old Rodime 20-plus harddisk has died.  Basically, somewhere
between my old and new apartments, some space aliens came and killed it.  After
the move, I simply re-attached it to my MacPlus, and tried to boot.  Nuffin.
The fan starts, but the platter doesn't seem to start to spin.  I brought it
to my local Rodime dealer, but all he could do was send it to Rodime.  Now,
Rodime said it would cost $300-400 to fix (at least my dealer said Rodime in-
formed him of this) depending on whether it was an electronic or mechanical
problem.  Well, I can get a NEW 30-meg drive (not Rodime) on campus for ~500,
so I didn't send it to Rodime.
	Now I have a very expensive doorstop.  Anybody have any clues as to
what could have gone wrong?  I typically left the drive on constantly before
the move...so I never really had to turn in on/off.  I did *not* drop it
or any such thing during the move.  I've tried many cycles of on/off with the
switch trying to get the drive platter to start to spin, but to no avail.  I've
also turne the drive on its side and tried.  Finally, I've also tried slight 
raps on the box when turning on to try to jar something looose.
	Needless to say, I'm not going to send it to Rodime for $400; but I'd
*really* like to do something with it other than prop up my coffee table.
I *did* do a full backup of the disk before the move; but that does me little
good when the harddisk is dead!

				Thanks for any help...

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