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From: freewill@pawl.rpi.edu (Jenni L. Lexau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HD will not spin up (sometimes), banging it helps; Suggestions?
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Date: 29 Oct 90 18:42:11 GMT
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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"no spin-up" is a real problem wth old and new Seagate drives.  I've
seen it happen with several St-138's and ST-251's.  The problem seems
to be (at least from what I was able to get out of the Seagate techs)
that the drives heads actually stick to the platters.  Lubrications is
apparently difficult without affecting the media.  The fix seems to be:
don't turn off the machine!  They don't make that much noise.
   
As to Toshiba drives being more reliable, it's been my experience that 
Toshiba drives don't have a spin-up problem because they crash before
they're old enough to develop spin-up problems.  (I'm not trying to
slam Toshiba here...mearly saying that I've had a couple of bad
experiences with their drives.)
   
Opening a drive in a normal office environment WILL kill it, even
if it's only open for a few seconds.
   
Quimby
  
(quimby@rpitsmts.bitnet, quimby@mts.rpi.edu)