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From: baltes@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Hansjorg Baltes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Problems with Harddisk
Summary: How to jump start a hard disk
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.154630.15434@calgary.uucp>
Date: 24 Jul 90 15:46:30 GMT
Sender: Jacky Baltes
Reply-To: baltes@cs-sun-di.UUCP (Hansjorg Baltes)
Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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HELP:,
I have a problem with my stock A2500/20 and the 40 MB "pergodion" (or so) drive. 
Whenever I leave the computer on for more than a couple of hours, my hard disk 
won't start.  I mean that 

         a.) I switch on the A2500.

         b.) I can hear the drive go click ... ,click ... ,click ... ,click.
             Then it gives up.

         c.) The drive does not start (I normally can hear when the motor is on)
             and the system hangs.

The same thing happens when I just connect the power to the hard disk.

Up to now I could solve the problem by switching the machine on a couple of
times. Last time I took out the 68020 board and the hard disk controller.
Once I got the drive motor on, the drive would work fine until I had it on
for more than 6 hours the next time. All data would be still intact.

This time all this doesn't help.
I read news about Seagate drives that have problems starting. Maybe
I have the same problem, although I have a different drive.

My question is: What do you do to make the motor turn again.

The irony in the whole story is that I wanted to switch on my machine to do
a backup, because I had done a lot of work lately.

Thanks,  Jacky Baltes.

PS: This is my first article, I hope I did everything right.
My email address is baltes@cpsc.ucalgary.ca