I ended up using a staple for a jumper, it was the first thing I could find that seemed to fit. Freezing the drive gave me about 3 minutes, but I needed more time, so I ended up sticking the drive between two ziplock bags with ice cubes and water. So far so good, been copying data off the drive for 15+ minutes. Mike Nixon On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:35:06 -0500, Thomas Johnson <tommyj27 at gmail.com> wrote: > the idea is that chilling a dying drive in the freezer will give you > some extra run time to dump data before it siezes up on you. > > > > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:07:58 -0600, Sam MacDonald <smac at visi.com> wrote: > > Freezer Trick? > > > > Sam. > > > > Mike Nixon wrote: > > > > >I'm trying to recover data off a few flaky laptop hard drives (with > > >one of those kits to connect the 2.5" drive to a 3.5" cable). > > >There is a jumper setting for slave or cable select, but I don't have > > >any jumpers that fit on these smaller drives. Any suggestions on > > >where I could pickup jumpers locally in Minneapolis? > > > > > >BTW, the freezer trick has been a big help here also. > > > > > >TIA, > > >Mike Nixon > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list