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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Seagate.
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Date: 5 Jul 89 13:30:26 GMT
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In article <[503.2]un.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
>
>I have several of these drives in reach as well, all of them being run at
>190% of their rated capacity for a long time. Most run continuously for 1
>year or more (24 hours, 7 days, 15-acesses an hour all the time, many more
>during "work") WITH >NO< FAILURES>

	One moment modem-breath.  :-) :-) :-)

	One problem that strikes many Seagates (like mine) happens when
you turn it off and try to turn it on again:  the disk doesn't spin-up.  So
if your drive has this problem and you've had it running an entire year, your
warranty just expired! :-)

	Fortunately, these drive can be revived by giving the spindle a
quarter turn.  Of course in my system this means completely unmounting the
drive to get at the spindle at the bottom.  And unfortunately for Jonathan
this isn't the problem his drive has.

	As for my aforementioned drive, it was still under warranty and is
in the process of being replaced.  Unfortunately, that process has been
going on for over five weeks (the replacement is on back-order).  My only
hope is that they have fixed the manufacturing/testing problem.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

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