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From: hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader)
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Subject: Re: Incredible rumor about SPARCstation internal disk lossage
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Date: 4 Jun 91 18:40:00 GMT
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hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader) writes:
> 
> I can verify this. We have a four-day weekend for Easter for which we
> shutdown our machines -- SS1s with 2 100 MB Maxtor disks in each.  When we

An alert correspondent pointed out that I was mistaken. These are not Maxtor
disks, but Quantum disks. He also wrote that slowly warming the disk up
rather than whacking it might fix the stuck actuator problem.

Sorry about any confusion I may have caused.
--
Hugh Fader
hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com