Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!silver!sl242003
From: sl242003@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Paul Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 Harddrive Update
Keywords: hell, harddrive
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.141624.17270@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 14:16:24 GMT
References: <27548@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <779@tnc.UUCP>
Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Lines: 22


THAT ST-157N IS NOT DEAD!

Last time you shut it off. when the drive spun down the heads stuck
to the media.  Usually if you park the 157N andd then shut it off
this won't happen.

The clicking sound is the drive trying to get the platters spinning
and the heads are holding them up.

If your ST-157N is old, it DOES NOT autopark.  There is a fix for
this and it costs about $50.  If you need the drive to work NOW,
you can use a tweaker to flick the spindle that the drives mount
on.  (The spindle is visible from the bottom of the drive, and you
will have to move the circuit board out a little.  I make NO
guarrantees that this will work, altho it worked for me.  All I
can say is be VERY careful.)

As an aside, I build about 200 PC clones with Segates in them, and
none of them had any problems.  I build about 10 with Miniscribe,
and every last one of them died.  Go figure.  I am using an ST296N
now and it works wonderfully.