Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!polaris.utu.fi!polaris!esaholm From: esaholm@polaris.utu.fi (Esa Holmberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: HD will not spin up (sometimes), banging it helps; Suggestions? Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 22:19:17 GMT References: <1447@pedsga.UUCP> <26953@cs.yale.edu> <0!8%_**@rpi.edu> Organization: University of Turku, Finland Lines: 14 freewill@pawl.rpi.edu (Jenni L. Lexau) writes: >Opening a drive in a normal office environment WILL kill it, even >if it's only open for a few seconds. In that case I have two dead hard discs working just perfectly after a small repair/cleanup on my living room table.. I just hope the discs will never notice that they have died for a long time ago :-D -- _________________________________________________________________________ ( Esa Holmberg, Turku Telephone Company, AXE, Linnankatu 4, 20100 TURKU, ) ) Finland ! Elisa: Holmberg Esa TT (tt) ! fax +358 21 502 298 / ( Internet: esaholm@utu.fi, esa.holmberg/o=tt/@elisa.fi /