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From: fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Phred Dushin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Whizzing on LaCie 30mg drive
Message-ID: <1991Jan3.031348.16526@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 03:13:48 GMT
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My LaCie 30mg cirrus drive has begun to emit a high-pitched
whizzing sound occasionally.  The sound is at a lower frequency 
than the drive itself, and it comes and goes every 5 minutes
or so.  It sounds like it may be the fan.

Should I give the fan bearings a dose of lithium grease?

Has anyone had a similar problem?

The drive has been running almost constantly now for about two years.
I bought it in September of 1988.  Not bad, LaCie, but I would
like to solve this problem.

Fred Dushin
Syracuse University