Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!udel!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Noisy 400MB drive? Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 21:49:15 GMT References: <31027@mimsy.umd.edu> <1991Mar7.151351.14600@wam.umd.edu> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: pflikk@wam.umd.edu's message of 7 Mar 91 15:13:51 GMT To all of you high-pitch-sufferers: I have had this happen on an NEC PC a year ago (just after the warranty was over); I dared open up the drive and put a tiny drop of lubricant on the carbon contact (which is there to take of static electricity), and since then the whine is gone. Of course, I could have ruined the diks, so I backed it up to a very quiet HP-Vectra. Don't do it on your NeXT before you have tried all the legal remedies! BTW -- my 400 MB drive (which has been spinning for a fortnight now) is quieter than the fan (or I am losing my high frequency hearing). Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Prof.) Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717;(714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET