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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 251 Wierdness (summary)
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Date: 21 Jul 89 15:45:00 GMT
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In article <20621@cup.portal.com> Scott_A_Dalrymple@cup.portal.com writes:
>Hello, folks;
>
>    I, too, am an unsatisfied 251 owner.  In fact, I just posted
>an article for help myself recently.  My problem (this time) was
>that the drive won't spin up at all (without a lot of fiddling).

Warning - the following originates from some very cobweb-encrusted
brain cells known to be less than perfectly reliable.  In other
words, it is just this side (which side?) of rumor:

With that out of the way:  I think the Seagate ST-251 is the drive
that has an unusual fix for various funny problems.  By loosening a
(circuit-board?) mounting screw near the front of the drive, on it's
underside, some thermal expansion/contraction problems are
eliminated that cause intermittent unreliabilities in the drive.

If not, then never mind.

kEITHe