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From: war%tp3@RAND-UNIX.arpa (Kevin Terpstra)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Hard Drive Noise
Message-ID: <509@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 22:25:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 22:25:45 1986
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When I used to work computer repair, we had people complain of such noises
about three or four times a day.  Every time the problem was caused by the
static ring on the bottom of the Hard Disk (the ring in the center of the
bottom of the drive that touches a ball to drain off rotational static).
Anyway, the fix to this problem is to lightly lift the ring off of the ball
and let it snap back.  I have never seen this fail and the drive will shut up
for a long time.  If it doesn't work then you haven't snapped the ring hard
enough.

- Howard Postley
(war%tp3@rand-unix.arpa)