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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Noisy SH204
Summary: Noisy hard drives
Message-ID: <5457@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 18:07:09 GMT
References: <34541@grapevine.uucp>
Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <34541@grapevine.uucp> koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm) writes:
>I've noticed that my SH204 hard drive has been getting noisier and noisier
>over time.  Has anyone else noticed their drives acting that way?  Can anyone
>suggest a fix?
>
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>"                                                  !" - Marcel Marceau
>Steven Grimm		Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st
>sgrimm@sun.com		...!sun!sgrimm

Yeah, happened to my Seagate 251 as well.   A local hard drive guru type person
suggested that it might be a worn "spindle"; [this of course depends on what
kind of hard drive mech the SH204 has] the little thing on the bottom of the
hard drive that spins (middle of mech. approx.) and is covered by a tab.  That
occasionally gets worn, causing a wobbling that makes the sound.

In my case, however, the 251 was turning itself into dogmeat.

Mike Matthews