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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Lubricating hard drive? | Posted by: olePigeon on 2019-11-13 10:29:26
I have a Seagate Hawk ST32155N. It's a nice 2GB SCSI drive. I've been having issues with it. It sort of works. It has trouble spinning up and seems to randomly seek every now and then, I'm guessing because it'll slow down a bit on occasion.
Is there a way to lubricate the hard drive spindle? This is soft of a make or break issue, and no valuable data is on it. I'm just hoping to recover the drive to use it. 50 pin SCSI drives are expensive on eBay. :/
My other 2GB SCSI drive (Quantum) has power issues. It powers on, then powers off, powers on, powers off, etc. I don't know how to diagnose power issues. It started doing it after the LED connector got yanked off the motherboard by accident. I assume it broke something else in the process.
| Posted by: techknight on 2019-11-13 14:54:15
Not without removing the platters. If theres more than 1 platter, you need a special tool. And a clean environment.
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2019-11-13 17:31:42
OK, then. Not worth it. I think the platter got scratched at some point which may explain why it seems to seek at random times. I can see 2 visible little scratches, one near the middle, and one towards the center. I also don't have any special tools, so I guess it's a lost cause.
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