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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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Doctor Stetoscope For HDD analyses

June 21st, 2007, 15:38

Hi Mates ,
I Have Many Doctors In Near My Shop And I Came Upon a rilliant Idea .I Went To The Chemist Shop And Brought The Cheapest Stetoscope I Could Find .Now I Keep It On the Drive And Then Start The Drive .I am Able To Listen and Hear All The Motor And Head Noises .this Is Even Better For 2.5" Laptop Drives

June 21st, 2007, 16:05

Hi,
Firmware ? . I Never Said That I Just Said It Is a Tool Tool For Assistance and Good For 2.5" Drives That It

June 21st, 2007, 16:42

I also have one. I've been using it for about a year now and I find it to be handy. It beats contorting your head into positions to better hear a drive's sounds.

June 22nd, 2007, 10:25

It's probably the cheapest and most useful tool you can get in a DR lab. Nobody mentioned FW problems.

Shows how much you really know Spildit....

June 22nd, 2007, 11:07

Hi CK ,
Spildit Is A Senior Guy ,Please Do Not Say That And Spildit Don'nt Joke Too Much They All Take The Other Way Around Pleaseeeeeeeeee ..........

I Love You all

June 22nd, 2007, 13:09

I'm not going to get into a slagging match, but just because somebody has "Senior" status, does not mean that what they say is correct. Anybody can post lots of meaningless posts on a forum to increase their rank or reputation.

For example, I would not expect a senior to say:

How can i put the following drives in safe mode ?

- Segate
- WD
- Hitachi/IBM
- Samsung

@ Amarbir : Why do each of your words begin with a CAPITAL letter?

June 22nd, 2007, 16:42

I just use a Phillips head screwdriver. Put the tip in one of the screw holes and put the plastic end in your ear. Works fine when you are listening to drive activity.

I work in a noisy shop. Sometimes I need to hear what a drive does during init.

June 27th, 2007, 18:54

cgallery wrote:I just use a Phillips head screwdriver. Put the tip in one of the screw holes and put the plastic end in your ear. Works fine when you are listening to drive activity.

I work in a noisy shop. Sometimes I need to hear what a drive does during init.



Hmm, that works, thanks for the tip.

I used once a microphone and spectrum analizator software, so i could SEE the track-to-track seek and such, and monitor the progress of some lenghty operation ....

June 28th, 2007, 12:38

Hi vlaszlo,
What a Tip Man ,I Have a Scope i Will Get a Transuder And Try This HEEE HEEE .Nice Idea
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