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From: huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert E. Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Seagate Seizures
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.180127.14970@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 18:01:27 GMT
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THis thread came up well over 6 months ago on the amiga groups, but those
were my pre-hard-drive-days and now it has become an issue:

What is the besy way of dealing with Seagate (non-Quantum) drives that
sieze up and refuse to beginning spinning when you turn them on?  I
started having this problem after I got in the habbit of parking the
drive heads whenever I shut down (and I got into that habbit after
a crash landing ruined some blocks).  Which is the lesser of two
evils: parking and siezing, or causing read/write errors?

Or perhaps there is no connection between parking heads and lockups.
It could be that the drive just decayed over time.

Anyone that followed that thread please post a synopsis.  I think it
would be valuable for c.s.a.intro since it seems everyone is adding
hard drives as of late.
-- 
| Robert E. Huebner                   | "Death is nature's way of telling  |
| huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu           |  you to slow down"                 |
| huebner@aerospace.aero.org          |   - Unknown Author                 |