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From: akk@trantor.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Andy Klingler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Seagate Seizures
Message-ID: <18a6d18e.ARN02fc@trantor.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 8 Feb 91 19:56:46 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.180127.14970@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: akk@trantor.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
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In article <1991Feb7.180127.14970@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, Robert E. Huebner writes:

> 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? 

Well, the best way is to throw it out of the window and never buy a
Seagate drive again.
The second best thing: never switch your computer off (that`s what I do).

But since you already have the problem here is one of the old postings:
(Disclaimer: I never had to try this (knock on wood), so I don`t know
how well this works)
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Subject: Re: Seagate fails on powerup
Message-ID: <3923@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 3 Aug 90 11:30:36 GMT
References: <1990Jul30.153310.7818@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: Technology Marketing Inc., Irvine, CA

[...]
Well, I bought some wooden-stick Q-Tips and cut one of the "puffs" off.  I
used that raw piece of wood to stick between the circuit card and the HDA
(head-disk assembly) to spin the flywheel for the platter to the left (with
the PCB on top).

If you look between the PCB and HDA, you should see the edge of a silver disk.
That's the flywheel.  Use some sort of skinny object (the Q-Tip is perfect)
to rotate that thing to the left if the PCB is on top.  It'll break free.  You
can then apply power to the drive (you don't have to have the controller
hooked up) to verify you've freed the thing.

Alternately, you can unscrew the PCB, flip it back (be CAREFUL) and spin the
flywheel clockwise by hand.  Make sure that you rebend the static grounding
strap back so it's in contact with the spindle.

The pliers will work, but use needle nosed ones and put a layer of electrical
tape on each of the jaws so you don't score the spindle.  Another way of doing
it is to get a pencil with an eraser.  Put the pencil (eraser end down) on top
of the spindle (so that the pencil becomes an extension of the spindle) and
twist the pencil.

 
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