I think I tried that - years ago a friend of mine had a 10yo maxtor
disk in a system - worked fine as long as you didn't power it down,
and if you did you had to tap it with a hammer to get it going again
;-)

My misstake was powering down the SS20 when I was heading out of town
for a week ;-)

--sjg

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:14:07 -0500, "Erik E. Fair" writes:
>Some of those old disks have stiction problems (I've seen this with 
>Quantum drives); try removing the drive from your SS20, manually 
>spinning it in your hand along the axis of the spindle back and 
>forth, reinstall it, and attempt to power up and boot.
>
>	Erik <fair@netbsd.org>