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Subject: Re: Fan on the MEGAFILE 30
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Date: 4 Jun 91 05:52:58 GMT
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In article <1991Jun03.074746.17142@cs.ruu.nl> jeroen@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Fokker) writes:

>I have that kit, too. Or rather: I _had_ it. I disconnected it,
>because since it was installed, I had some troubles with the disk.
>
>When the disk was used for more than four hours the day before,
>it wouldn't start up again. I nedd to shake the entire disk quite
>roughly to get it rotating again. I know some day this will have
>disastrous effects...

  I wouldn't be so quick to blame the kit on this problem.  I see SO many
disks come in where I work that have this problem, where the spindle sticks.
It happens on low capacity drives (especialy 3 1/2" drives like the ST125(N))
a lot.  No one has been able to tell me how to fix this problem (if it is
fixable), but I have found that by manually rotating the spindle frees it up
a lot safer than shaking it. 

>--
>Jeroen Fokker                                 |  jeroen@cs.ruu.nl
>dept.of Computer Science, Utrecht University  |  tel.+31-30-534129
>PObox 80089, 3508TB Utrecht, the Netherlands  |  fax.+31-30-513791

-Mike