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From: 39clocks@violet.berkeley.edu (Peter Marinac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Stalling OD
Keywords: optical disk problems
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.100015.13568@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 10:00:15 GMT
Sender: 39clocks@violet.berkeley.edu(Peter Marinac)
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The optical disk drive on the machine I just picked up from Businessland
is acting a little odd in my opinion.  Every once and a while when a 
the disk is being accessed, it will spin down to a stop, chirp, and then
start up again as if nothing happened.  Is this normal behaivor, or is
indicative of a problem? The problem occurs most often when I am reading
man pages from Terminal, but it has also happened during boot up an in
other applications.

Someone on the net recently mentioned an extended warranty program for ODs
with serial numbers starting with AAD or ADD.  Since mine is one of these,
I wonder if the 'problem' I am experiencing is covered.  If not I will 
probably bring the unit back to Businessland.  Does anyone know more about
the extended warranty program?

Thanx      Peter Marinac,,,39clocks@violet.berkeley.edu