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From: maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu (ERIC SCHWERTFEGER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Seagate Drive Problem
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Date: 20 Nov 89 21:22:51 GMT
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	I believe there was a discussion here a few weeks ago about
a quality control problem with recent Seagate drives, involving
an excess of lubrication locking the drive head in place and not 
allowing the drive to spin up.  I believe this is happening to my
16 month old ST138R, because twice in the last month it refused to 
spin up when the power was turned on, and I had to "unjam" the drive
by hitting the drive firmly on its side (yes I was cringing as I did this).
	My question is, what company has the facilities to do this,
do they do business through the mail, and how much will this cost?
	I don't want to buy a new drive, because I hope to upgrade
from an A500 to an A2000 after they start shipping A2000s with the 1.4
ECS, which means that I would have to replace my controller, since
my current drive is non-SCSI and most A2000 controllers are SCSI.

Eric J. Schwertfeger, UNLV  maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu