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From: hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (Harold Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: My Seagate hard drive burps!
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Date: 29 Mar 90 02:10:32 GMT
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In article <9687@shlump.nac.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>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...
>

That's funny.  My drive burbs too but for over 20 seconds.  It
does it once in a long while.  The drive is a Seagate St-277N 
packaged by CMS as a 30MB drive.

This is actually a long story but the drive was acting up (loosing data/
format etc) during this time it was burping.  It turns out the fan had
stopped blowing and it was probably overheating.  I fixed the fan and
now EVERYTHING is normal.  Even the burps are gone.  Was this related?
I don't know.  All I know is that I saved lots of $$.

Harold