| From: | TOM BAILIE |
| Date: | 25 Oct 2000 at 09:51:36 |
| Subject: | Re: (Dodgy) 2.5in. HDDs' |
Hi Andrew,
> > I wish to goodness I could do that, but how, when HDInstall and
> > HDTools don't recognise that the drives exist? Believe me, I've
> > tried!
> >
> > Many Thanks for you're help, though. It's much appreciated.
> Well, prehaps really they are dead? Do they make a nice spinny-upy
> and clicky noise? (using very technical terms today :)
Well, sort of.... (I wish more people would use you're 'Technical
terms', then I'd understand what they meant)
> Also, you know the hd lead you're using works right? One thing you
>can
> try is pulling pin 1 (bottom left one, when you've got your a1200 kb
> facing you, the wire's usually red or has marks/spots etc) out from
> the cable. Some old drives don't like it in, new ones don't like it
> out :/
Yup! Tried both - no joy.
> Finally, do they work in PC's? If not, you have some busted
> harddrives :(
PC's??? Is that the thing my wife sticks her needles and pins into?
> (well, you could try offloading it on some unfortunate bugger, a
> friend of mine once sold a working '2.2gig' harddrive to a 2nd hand
> shop. It was actually only about 200megs in size, but on the drives
> lable it had 2.2g written so he said it was 2.2 gigs, it worked as
> well :)
Oh! Andrew! Would that 'friend' of yours happen to be called Andrew
Crowe? Better watch Mark Wilson dosn't read this. He'll ban you from
AmiBench. :-)
Oops! Have to go..... Wheelie, v1, is about to get an upgrade before
being "formatted".
Thank 'e so, Andrew,
Tom.
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