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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HD will not spin up (sometimes), banging it helps; Suggestions?
Message-ID: <15467@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 30 Oct 90 13:29:09 GMT
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Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <4677@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
> 
> 	If you ever opened a drive and then had it function
> satisfactorily afterwards, please tell me. Or, if it was
> kaput afterwards. tell me that, too.
> 	Thanks.

Some years ago a friend and I opened a CMI 20meg HD.  With the cover off (in a
standard office room), we formatted and installed a few programs on it.  After
a period of about 3 hours R/W errors appeared.  We reformatted the HD again 
and about a third of the drive was locked up in bad sectors.  We repeated this
about 4 times until only a few megs were usable.  The cover was off the whole 
time.  But then again most of the CMI drives I worked with had this problem even
with the cover on!
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Mike Brim			     |	Commodore Electronics Limited
PC Analyst - System Evaluation Group | 	West Chester, PA 19380
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