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From: prism@chinet.chi.il.us (PRISM Interactive Products)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Noisy SH204
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.062420.4898@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 25 Mar 91 06:24:20 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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I have an SH204 20Meg hard drive which is extremely noisy.  Since I use my
ST mostly for music/MIDI related stuff it is that much more annoying.  I have
recently started turning the drive off when I'm in the middle of something which
I know has no drive accesses.  Occasionally I have goofed and forgot to turn the
drive on, but I just get an alert box which says the drive isn't responding.  I
just turn the drive on and let it spin up then click on the retry box.  My 
question is:  Is this bad practice?  I don't think anything has been harmed yet,
and since I don't use any cacheing program I don't see the possibility for
problems.  I have checked the integrity of the disk with various PD programs
similar to UNIX's fsck and everything seems fine.  So what do you ST tech
experts think?  Alternatively,  any ideas for getting rid of the noise short
of replacing the drive mechanism (which is a Tandon).  Any help would be 
appreciated.

Thanks -
Bob Dyas
PRISM Interactive Products