12-02-2013, 03:17 PM
I tried the Smart control software and it said that the disk was only 250GB and that it was about to fail see this report from Smart control;-
[i]smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-w64-mingw32-xp-sp2] (sf-5.43-1)
Copyright © 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC ROM MODEL-DF3_PL-
Serial Number: WDC-ROM SN# XYZ----
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 001b20b1c
Firmware Version: 01.00A01
User Capacity: 250,160,505,344 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Tue Feb 12 10:33:57 2013 RST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
No failed Attributes found.
However, It was impossible to see anything on the disk and trying the test again showed nothing at all only the initials of the disk and no SMART support.
I opened the disk and could see one of the heads was bent.
I noticed that that the pickup has a coil positioned between 2 rare earth magnets, I wondered if this could be used as a sensor for a seismometer?
Took all the rest apart, what are the disks made of by the way?
Anyway I lost a bunch of old films, It's going to be SSDs in all future PCs from now on.
Thanks for the advice everyone!
Mike
[i]smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-w64-mingw32-xp-sp2] (sf-5.43-1)
Copyright © 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC ROM MODEL-DF3_PL-
Serial Number: WDC-ROM SN# XYZ----
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 001b20b1c
Firmware Version: 01.00A01
User Capacity: 250,160,505,344 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Tue Feb 12 10:33:57 2013 RST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
No failed Attributes found.
However, It was impossible to see anything on the disk and trying the test again showed nothing at all only the initials of the disk and no SMART support.
I opened the disk and could see one of the heads was bent.
I noticed that that the pickup has a coil positioned between 2 rare earth magnets, I wondered if this could be used as a sensor for a seismometer?
Took all the rest apart, what are the disks made of by the way?
Anyway I lost a bunch of old films, It's going to be SSDs in all future PCs from now on.
Thanks for the advice everyone!
Mike
