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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: My Seagate hard drive burps!
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Date: 28 Mar 90 04:09:02 GMT
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Hi,

In early February, I bought an Ehman internal 45MB drive to replace the
original 20MB in my SE.  Because of the way the Ehman bracket and cable is
(shove the drive way to the back, twist the cable on itself, and wedge it in),
it seemed like a good idea to reuse the cable and bracket from the 20MB drive. 
This oriented the drive 180 degrees from the way Ehman's bracket would have
oriented it, which would have been circuit board down, so it now is circuit
board up.  To be safe, I reformatted it in this position.  I don't know if
this is relevant to the problem I'm having, but thought I'd mention it.

Anyway, the problem is that the drive "burps" (that's really what it sounds
like!).  It has a pretty major burp (belch?) every 10 minutes or so, which
lasts from about 1 to 1.5 seconds. Then, there is a MUCH more minor burp about
every five minutes. The drive light does not flash.  The drive has given me
absolutely no problems, but I'm wondering if this is something I should be
concerned about. The drive is a Seagate ST157N (?), manufactured January
1990.

Thanks for any help...

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