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From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP Series II with Quantum: Drive mak
Message-ID: <19FZLFB@dri.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 02:59:50 GMT
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Reply-To: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey Development Center
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>I have had my GVP Series II card with 40 meg Quantum for 4 months and
>have noticed that I can hear the drive working for short bursts BUT the
>green hard disk light on the front of the Computer doesn't light up. Is
>this indications of impending doom with my Quantum as I still have it
>under warranty. It just make a read noise say every three minutes for
>about 1 second.

Quantum got burned by the infamous stiction problem on an OEM contract
with Apple a year or so ago.  Their "fix" was a new prom that regularly
moves the heads all around.

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Jimmy Liberato   liberato@dri.com
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