Fasting and prayer might be your best bet, since there is no this-worldly cure for the drive. If it is any consolation, most of us are increasingly having these problems with our old scsi devices.
As for solutions, you have the following basic options: 1) obviously, there are replacement period drives available; 2) there is the option of finding a Nubus Jackhammer card or similar, which will run a slightly newer 68-pin scsi drive at much faster speed; 3) there are cheap adapters for 68 pin scsi and SCA (80 pin, server) drives, which again are newer drives, as well as plentiful and cheaper than some of these alternatives; 4) there is the custom "Power Monster" adapter on eBay, which will allow use of a solid state drive in the form of a CF card (there are similar Addonics ide to scsi converters); and 5) there are theoretical possibilities that avoid the need for a hard drive as such, like use of optical drives/ Jazz/ Zip, which would be interesting to use in conjunction with a RAM disk — assuming you have plenty of RAM.... So you have some options.
There are ongoing attempts in the background among some of our members to design and fabricate an adapter board, but I don't think they have gotten as far as we would all like.
As for solutions, you have the following basic options: 1) obviously, there are replacement period drives available; 2) there is the option of finding a Nubus Jackhammer card or similar, which will run a slightly newer 68-pin scsi drive at much faster speed; 3) there are cheap adapters for 68 pin scsi and SCA (80 pin, server) drives, which again are newer drives, as well as plentiful and cheaper than some of these alternatives; 4) there is the custom "Power Monster" adapter on eBay, which will allow use of a solid state drive in the form of a CF card (there are similar Addonics ide to scsi converters); and 5) there are theoretical possibilities that avoid the need for a hard drive as such, like use of optical drives/ Jazz/ Zip, which would be interesting to use in conjunction with a RAM disk — assuming you have plenty of RAM.... So you have some options.
There are ongoing attempts in the background among some of our members to design and fabricate an adapter board, but I don't think they have gotten as far as we would all like.