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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum ROM fix report
Message-ID: <27801@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 25 Nov 89 18:29:24 GMT
References: <14618@well.UUCP> <9323@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <20837@mimsy.umd.edu>
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In article <20837@mimsy.umd.edu> spector@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Lee Spector) writes:
>The NEW problem (post "fix") is a rattling sound that continues for a long
>time - usually until the user explicitly causes a subsequent read/write to
>the disk.  Sometimes it takes several read/writes to stop the sound, and
>it usually comes back fairly soon (at least this is my experience with my
>IIcx).  I've heard that the problem is supposed to fix itself within a few
>weeks, but as has been mentioned in previous posts (by myself and others)
>this does not seem to be the case.  When this rattling sound is occurring
>there IS noticable slowdown of drive accesses.

  Oddly enough, the problem does seem to have "fixed itself" after approx.
1 month of hyperactive, rattling, performance-degrading accesses on my IIcx.
When I first got the drive (with the new ROM), the performance was horrible.
Now that the drive has been "broken in," the hyper-access problem seems to
have gone away. Possibly it takes a while for the lubricant to spread evenly,
or achieve some kind of magic viscosity level? Or am I just lucky?

-ken

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