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From: plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ST277R-1,ST11R,XT Clone
Message-ID: <340043@hpsgpa.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 89 02:17:04 GMT
References: <2134@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr
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This is not likely but give it a go anyway:

If you ever use a Bernoulli Box (from IOMEGA) you'll know that their
drives make tiny ticking sound a few seconds after the last disk access.
This is supposed to be random skating to reduce wearing of disk at one
particular sport (c.f. if the disk head were to stay still at one place).

But then, this is the Bernoulli disk and I think shouldn't apply to
winchester disk. But then again ....... you never know.


Regards,
Peter Lim.
HP Singapore IC Design Center.

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