The hard drive, Connor CP-3044, seemed to have issues with the inner plate. Some people on the net say that resin inside could cause issues, but that didn't seem to be the case. Instead, there were major signs of corrosion inside. The head was moving quite erratically, and the disk refused to work.
Given that the disk is not especially rare and only 42MB in size, we declared it dead. It is interesting to see the lines on the disk - it has only 980 cylinders, so only 980 head positions, and so maybe this is what we see?
