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From: chma@iceman.jcu.oz (Michael Antolovich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Noise from Quantum 105 Hard Disks
Message-ID: <1135@iceman.jcu.oz>
Date: 28 Oct 90 07:46:49 GMT
References: <69318215MES@MSU>
Reply-To: chma@iceman.UUCP (Michael Antolovich)
Organization: James Cook University, Qld
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In article <69318215MES@MSU> 18215MES@MSU.BITNET writes:
>I have the same problem, and have been too lazy to do anything
>about it. I got mine from MacTel. (anyone had problems with them?)
>
>Someone also posted on this subject a while back and
>indicated that this IS NOT the stiction related problem,
>but may indicate a BAD BEARING which can cause the disk to freeze up!
>
>Mine seems to work ok most of the time, but that noise is irritating,
>and does slow down the performance of the drive by 100%. I don't
>look forward to being without a hard disk for a week to a month...

   I have been just as lazy (it was someone else, who has a good drive, that
pointed out how slow the drive is).  What do I have to look forward too ?
                                                        Michael.
PS It was a 3rd Party 105M Quantum formatted with SilverLining.

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