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From: greg@enterprise.Central.Sun.COM (Greg George - Sun Area Project Consultant - Midwest )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum problems
Keywords: disk, quantum, hell
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Date: 13 Mar 91 15:48:09 GMT
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This is an old problem for these drives. Quantum used the
wrong lubricant on the spindle, causing the drive motor
to burn out pre-maturely. There was a free exchange for
drives under a certain serial number a while back, but
I'm not sure if it still in place. You might want to get
in touch with the Apple dealer you purchased the computer
from and see if they can help you out.

Make sure you have backups on your system, the disk will
DEFINITELY crash on you. It may be many weeks before the
stepper motor finally gives up, but its just a matter
of time.

greg

In article <1179@priddy.cs.utexas.edu>, khester@cs.utexas.edu (Stewart Kevin Hester) writes:
|> 
|>         My my IIcx 80MB drive has recently begun to have problems:
|> When the drive is idle the head starts make rather noisy movements, these 
|> movements do not stop until I open a folder or perform some other operation 
|> which results in a disk seek.  My external hard-disk functions fine, so I don't
|> believe that it is a problem with the IIcx SCSI controller.
|> 	The fact that these movements start when the drive is idle leads me
|> to believe that it is a problem with the logic board, not the actual drive
|> mechanism.  Is it possible to purchase a new Quantum 80S logic board?  Has
|> anyone encountered similar problems and found a good (read: cheap) solution?
|> 
|> 
|> Kevin
|> khester@cs.utexas.edu
|> 
|> PS: Please reply in this newsgroup.