Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc6.ucsd.edu!cg108dbd From: cg108dbd@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Steve -Social Hacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: how to lubricate noisy hard drive? Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 05:32:43 GMT References: <1991May19.063143.2846@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1991May20.145859.11814@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1991May21.155620.27561@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1991May22.145546.15579@monu0.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego -- Cognitive A. I. Lines: 81 In-reply-to: ins845b@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au's message of 22 May 91 14:55:46 GMT Originator: cg108dbd@icogsci1 In article <1991May22.145546.15579@monu0.cc.monash.edu.au> ins845b@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr k.l. lentin) writes: In article <1991May21.155620.27561@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> huffman@tortuga.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Bill Huffman) writes: >In article <1991May20.145859.11814@news.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes: >>| >mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes: >>| >>Well, you need to take off the outer casing, and lube the internal >>| >>components. Especially the platters themselves, since you don't want >>| >>the read/write head scraping against the platter. [..] > > >>All those moving parts are the technology of a past generation anyway. >>What you want is a Solid-State drive! Fortunately, you can convert >>your drive to solid-state quite cheaply. > >>Just mix up about 100 cc's of epoxy (the two-part kind) and apply it >>liberally to the ends of the shaft (runs through that shiny frisbee- [..] > >These are all very (interesting?) suggestions. However, there may be some >novices that might read your suggestions and be lead astray. I am, of >squeeze it very tightly. This will make the 1's and 0's smaller thereby >allowing more to fit on your media. I have found that vise grips work >very well for this. The larger and tighter the vise grips the better the >compression ratio will be. This will allow much more data to be stored on [..] I LOVE IT! What a great suggestion. There is of course an alternative to all this gluey epoxy, lets open ou drive and smear honey on the platters method of drive repaird. I find a much better way is to open the drive (thus letting in dust which makes the heads scrape little lines on the platters which makes nice little places for the binary 1's to lie in. Then take a big hammer and hit the exact centre of the round thingy bit (you must hit dead centre or you might do some damage :-) Then Fill the whole drive with epoxy resin to keep all the pieces together and re seal the drive to its original 100% air tight, dust proof conditions. There is no need to back up or compress beacuse this method can not fail. [..] |/ |\evin ---- I hope nobody is taking these suggestions seriously! If they are, they are opening their hard drives up to the possibility of... VIRUSES! Yes, there is a reason that those things are put together in a clean-room. While it is true that the binary 1's fit nicely in the fine scratches, you never can be sure what kind of dust was resposible for those convenient grooves. I personally recommend making the grooves manually with, say, an X-acto knife. If you make them deep enough, the heads may rest confortably in them and never need to move to another track. This, of course, reduces the time wasted by chirping all over the place. - Damn, there goes my patent application for clip-on data compression. Super Tip: I was experimenting with said forms of data compression on the big, colorful wires going into the drive. I was making a lot of progress towards reduced power consumption (for laptops, of course), when I stumbled accross a totally unrelated discovery. I pressed to hard on the clamp and snipped the wire in two. The effect? A drastic reduction in that awful whirring noise that comes with hard disks! Updates and analysis to come as soon as I fix my boot problem. -Steve :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) -- }>> Steve Haehnichen <<{ shaehnichen@ucsd.edu Disclaimer: UCSD and I do not share any opinions.