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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Sticking on powerup?
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Date: 1 May 90 21:05:37 GMT
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In article <2623@pink2.UUCP> hamilton@motcid.UUCP (Danial Hamilton) writes:
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>A friend told me that drives with a built-in park on powerdown feature
>(which mine has) sometimes stick on powerup.  Is this true?  If so,
>is it a problem I should have serviced while the system is still
>under warranty?

I had a Seagate ST4051 (full height 40ms, 40MB) disk that started sticking 
about a year ago ... it got progressively worse ... now the only way I can 
start it is by "kick-starting it" (manual spinning of the spindle ... if I 
could find the solenoid that applied the "brake", then I would disable it 
... but as it is now, the disk is useless.

I have seen this happen on 7 other Seagate drives (not sure of the model 
numbers) ... 


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