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From: steveg@tove.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Dead Rodime drive
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Date: 26 Oct 89 19:44:54 GMT
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In article <16379@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) writes:
>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
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Ah yes, this was very common for a while with the rodime drives.  If the 
platters are only stuck, which is what it sounds like, then all you have to do
it take the mechanism out of the case, and give the flywheel a nudge.  Get a 
long thin screwdriver, and look between the mech. and the PCB.  You should see
the large chrome colored wheel.  Just give it a slight turn.
This is/was a common problem with the 3.5 inch seagates also.


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