Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!diemen!tasis!ben From: ben@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Ben Lian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Rodime drives Keywords: Rodime, Hard disk Message-ID: <1331@diemen.cc.utas.oz> Date: 27 Mar 90 05:30:09 GMT References: <10693@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <93ldg@yoda.byu.edu> Sender: news@diemen.cc.utas.oz Reply-To: ben@tasis.UUCP (Ben Lian) Organization: Elec Eng & Comp Sci, Uni of Tasmania, Australia Lines: 28 In article <93ldg@yoda.byu.edu> ldg@yoda.byu.edu (Lyle D. Gunderson) writes: > >In <10693@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, Richard S. Bondi writes: > >>Anyone had any bad experiences (or good) [with Rodime drives]? > >My Rodime 140 Plus has been serving me faithfully and faultlessly for over >a year. At the time I bought it, I based my decision on the price (the 140+ [Deleted Rodime cheaper than Jasmine; better service] I too have a 140+ that has operated almost flawlessly since Nov 88. The only problem is that once the drive has cooled down, it is nearly always impossible to get it to spin-up reliably first time. I have to cycle the power off/on several times to (it seems to me) warm up the bearing enough for the platters to spin up to speed before the heads will unlock. (The platters are allowed to slow nearly to a halt after each power-down.) Has anyone had a similar problem? Was it fixed, how and for how much? I presently leave the 140+ on all the time except perhaps over the weekend because I don't like the idea of having to kick start the drive in the manner described above. Ben Lian Dept of EE & CS University of Tasmania Australia