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From: grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Seagate 'Stiction' Problem
Keywords: Seagate
Message-ID: <1173@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Jul 90 19:01:17 GMT
References: <2329@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil>
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Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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In article <2329@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil> nfs0294@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Glen Midkiff) writes:
>Has anyone found a fix for the sticking Seagate problem.  I have a 251-1
>that sometimes will not spin up when the system is turned on.  Removing 
>the drive and manually spinning usually makes it work for a while.  I
>have read much about this problem but have not seen a solution.  Any ideas?
>
>

Er, maybe the brake ? Many moons ago I tested mini-winnies, and an occaisional
problem was a dragging brake [ to stop the drive on power-down ].