On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> Thus Steven Kent Johnson hast written on Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:15:15PM -0400, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
>> Not making this up. Unplug it overnight and plug it back in.
>> Literally, the machine would make a horrific noise about 5:00 AM and it
>> would be dead. I have gotten a brand new machine, and at about 5:00 AM it
>> too would be dead. Always the same time, always the same room. The
>> overnight unplug has worked in about 4-5 occassions for me.
>
> It started clacking last night during playback, like a bad hard drive.
That's bad. Best fix I've found for that is to copy the entire drive onto
your spare big HD, and deal with the clicking once. Then you can mount it
loopback without errors. All right, more of a mitigation strategy then.
> I thought I might be able to mount the drive on a Knoppix box and copy
> some of the recordings if it uses a common file-system, but have given
> up on that, and lack the center-pinned hex-bit to open the case.
Like this? Be sure to get the right size, though.
http://www.acehardwareoutlet.com/ProductDetails.aspx?SKU=2105930
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