[PANTUGGeneral] Old hard drive laying around?

[Eric at Lucii.org]

My son's G4 Mac died and apparently it's due to the hard drive not working. I
put the drive in an external case and it did not spin-up so I suspect the
electronics board is bad.

I'd like to try swapping the electronics to see if we can get it working. If
anyone has an old Western Digital Caviar WD1800 (IDE) drive laying around and
they'd be willing to donate it or sell it for a small sum you'd make a certain
18 year old music fan VERY happy.

Yes, I know: backup, backup, and backup. I have a shared drive in the house
network and all family members are strongly encouraged to back up their precious
songs, photos, etc. I'm finding out how well the "encourage" model works :-)

TIA
Eric
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[JP Vossen]

On 07/16/2010 01:01 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> I'd like to try swapping the electronics to see if we can get it working. If
> anyone has an old Western Digital Caviar WD1800 (IDE) drive laying around and
> they'd be willing to donate it or sell it for a small sum you'd make a certain
> 18 year old music fan VERY happy.

Are you sure it's a WD1800? That seems very old and very small. What
is the age and size?

I'd have guessed I have one laying around since I have a large
collection of old WD drives, but so far I can't find one. I have things
like WDC2200, WDAC1425, WDC310000, WDC2700, WDC31600, WDC33200, WDC2340,
and others.

Later,
JP
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[Bill Tomon]

Eric, sorry just checked do not have one.

Thanks,

Bill

[Eric at Lucii.org]

JP:

It's from a Mac G4 tower - the drive is dated.. aw hell, here's the picture of
the label: http://www.lucii.com/old_drive.jpg

Yeah, it's old. My son is 18 and, until now, he thought the word "backup" only
applied to driving my car.

Thanks,
Eric

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# Eric Lucas
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# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr

[JP Vossen]

On 07/16/2010 08:31 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> It's from a Mac G4 tower - the drive is dated.. aw hell, here's the picture of
> the label: http://www.lucii.com/old_drive.jpg

Got you. Sorry, the closest I have yet found is a WD1600, 160G drive.

[Troy Sorzano]

Anyone runing FiOS business class with 5 Static Ips?

I expected to get a /29 subnet but I got a /24 with a gatway of 1.

So we are on a class C subnet but they only give us 5 Ips. Kind of a weird setup.

Troy Sorzano