Bigfoot, the original one :D

[Justintime]

Any ideas on what a solid red light means on a 4Gb (yes) Quantum Bigfoot disk? Trying to recover some picture data for a friend whos found it in the loft after maybe 17 years. Due to the size i can't slot it into my IDE USB slot load so i've got it hooked up to an old PIII board i had laying about. Theres a solid orange/red light on the pcb, i can hear and feel the spinup but no detection. Only ever had a Bigfoot TS 6Gb many years ago which i got rid of quick due to it being spectacularly slow so my experience is limited. Pretty sure the jumpers are set to master..guess its dead?

 

[Justintime]

Thanks for that, forgot who eventually got Quantum in the end, was it Maxtor/Quantum that merged then Seagate acquired if i remember right?. Yes i had it that way, seems like the drive needed some warming up after all this time as after several spinups it started to flash green Copied all of the data from it and gave my friend. God, digital cameras were horrible back then, apparently all of those files were from a Sony Mavica Camera that used floppies for storage Thanks for checking

 

[Justintime]

Yep i encountered one in an IBM Aptiva K6-2 266Mhz machine for the first time and was amazed what a difference there was when i put a proper hard drive in, forgot what the proper hdd was now, maybe a 4Gb fireball.. same machine got a 17Gb WD172AA a few years later before retirement and the user was happy. My own 6Gb was bought for data storage but even at that it was too slow and sold off quick.