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From: wack@udel.edu (Andrew Wack)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Opening hard drive, and hard drive cases
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Date: 20 Mar 90 00:09:53 GMT
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I just inhereted a "dead" ST-138N Seagate SCSI disk drive.  It came out
of a friends MAC, after the drive had died.  I'm really not sure how
"dead" it is though...the motor seems to start up rather slowly (like
the quantum drives with super-glue for grease on the spindles).  After
looking at the drive I was wondering if it was O.K. to open up the plate
on the underside that covers the motor (Note: I'm not talking about the
top plate that covers the entire drive), is this chamber seperate from
the rest of the drive (i.e. I could open it without a clean room).  If
I can't easily figure out what is wrong with it I'll probably send it to
one of the hard drive repair places I've seen in computer shopper...any
recomendations?

One final question: Anybody know where to get a case and power supply for
this thing at a REASONABLE price (I don't consider Tulin's Ahive case
at $129 reasonable...I can buy a complete PC tower case with 250 Watt
power supply for that!)?

Thanks in advance for any and all help.


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