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From: dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Seagate spin-up problem
Message-ID: <162.2710d677@skbat.csc.ti.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 00:41:42 GMT
References: <2088@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <71@abode.UUCP>
Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility
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In article <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. 
> 
>  Personally my advice to ANYONE with a seagate HD with stiction problems, is
> to just junk it and buy a better hard drive. It is not worth the trouble to
> attempt to get it fixed (assuming it can be), or god forbid living with the
> problem.

By any chance are people experiencing stiction problems with Seagate drives
operating the drive with the circuit board up?

Also, my ST277N-1 has never had a problem with stiction; it just likes to
forget that it has been formatted every once in a while.

Eric Dittman
Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
dittman@skitzo.csc.ti.com
dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com

Disclaimer:  I don't speak for Texas Instruments or the Component Test
             Facility.  I don't even speak for myself.