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From: mhowitt@pro-angmar.UUCP (Matt Howitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Quantum Spinning Its Platters
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Date: 29 Dec 90 04:36:05 GMT
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Hi all in netland!
 
I have a problem that I have seen mentioned before but I've never seem to have
gotten an answer.  I have a Quantum 105 Meg HD about 1 year old that I
purchased from LaCie in a Cirrus configuration.  This drive has a 5 year
warrantee, so I'm not out of it (yet).
 
Anyway, I seem to have a chronic problem.  Sometimes when I access the drive,
its platters will keep spinning (or some other grinding noise happens, I think
it is the platters) until I access the drive again.
 
I checked it with Norton Disk Doctor and got a total clean bill of health. 
I ran Speed Disk wondering if it was a fragmentation problem and optimized all
partitions.  It went away for a bit (or was it my imagination?)
but then came right back.  My drives have < 3% fragmentation and it still does
this!  Help!

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