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Zero Alpha
 Post subject: ST31000340AS No terminal?
PostPosted: January 13th, 2010, 23:25 
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Hello gurus. I freed a jammed spindle on this drive and now get it to spin up slowly with noise. But I don't get any terminal output and it just does a couple of light clicks every 10-20seconds and stays busy. Is platter swap necessary?

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 Post subject: Re: ST31000340AS No terminal?
PostPosted: January 14th, 2010, 0:21 
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Most likely. If shaft is bent there is no way drive can gain enough speed to get it into ready state. In old good times it was possibly to loose bearings just by manually turning platters forward and back. No more :(

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PostPosted: January 14th, 2010, 0:28 
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Of course yes , and check both and the heads...








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Zero Alpha
 Post subject: Re: ST31000340AS No terminal?
PostPosted: January 14th, 2010, 2:25 
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cheers ... these are very tough jobs.

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