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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Seagate spin-up problem
Keywords: Seagate, hard drive, hard disk, bogus, junky, trash, milk
Message-ID: <2094@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 7 Oct 90 00:05:32 GMT
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In <71@abode.UUCP>, jtb@abode.UUCP (John P. Gibbons) writes:
>[Stuff about stiction problem deleted]
>In article <2088@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>Don't power it down. As long as it's running, it won't stick.
>
> Wrongo!!! I ran a ST-138 for quite some time and rarely to NEVER shut down
>my system and it still stuck. Agreed, it will stick more often if you shut
>down but that is not the only time. 

If it stops while it's running, it isn't stiction that caused it to stop.

-larry

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