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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HD will not spin up (sometimes), banging it helps; Suggestions?
Keywords: spinup heads
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Date: 1 Nov 90 14:26:41 GMT
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In article <3138@jaytee.East.Sun.COM> gsteckel@east.sun.com (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Software) writes:
>A number of winchester disk manufacturers have experienced the
>`heads stuck to platter' problem - I've observed it on two,
>and several friends have seen it on others.  Names removed to
>protect the guilty.
>
>Cure:  keep the heads moving.  On my systems using Seagate drives
>(since these are ones on which I have >personally< observed the problem)
>I have a background program which reads a random block every minute
>or three.  This ensures that the heads move around.  Since I installed
>this program on my machines, I've had no stuck heads problems.
>
	Sir:
	I am ENTIRELY confused by your post. Do you mean that
even though the platters are spinning at a very high rate, the heads
somehow will sometimes suddenly "stick to the platters"? And that
simply moving the heads occasionally will stop this from occuring?
	Remarkable.



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