[tech] unisfa mac hard drive

[James Andrewartha]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Bernard Blackham wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:21:28PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > I took the hard drive out of the unisfa mac on thursday and tried it
> > nautilus, however, nautilus didn't boot (probably because of IDE
> > primar5y/slave conflicts). The drive did make a nasty clicking sound
> > however. Is there someone with a mac with IDE who wants to investigate
> > further? I was goign to try it in the 7200 that will be the new unisfa
> > mac, but it only has scsi. The drive is currently being cooled down in the
> > coke machine.
> 
> The mac I just replaced had an equally dead IDE mac hard drive with
> funny clicky sound symptoms... Though I managed to get its image and
> I'll run Norton or DiskWarrior over it when I get a hold of a copy.
> I'll do this one at the same time. Is there anything valuable on the
> disk?

The UniSFa library catalouge is the primary thing to recover. Feel free to
grab whatever else you can, but don't worry if you happen to irrecovably
delete the purity test.

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