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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate 4051 woes
Message-ID: <1368@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 14:50:35 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.1368
Posted: Wed Apr  1 14:50:35 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 12:04:27 EST
References: <168@micropen>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: head crash ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

In article <168@micropen> dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
#I have two systems with Seagate 4051 hard drives.  Both drives
#have increased noise from within the drive that is not unlike
#bearing noise.  I took one machine down and took it to my local
#clone-home.  They took the drive out, cleared the circuit boards,
#and removed a fair amount of gunk from the brake.  No more noise.
#Problem solved, no?!  No.  The drive hangs in boot.  A scan of

There are two common things which cause this symptom (and a rash of
uncommon). One is that some link from the heads to the source of
mechanical power for the actuator has slop. This calls for a rebuild.
The other is that one hard knock has moved the heads in relation to the
platter. It could have happened during your "brake job". Reformat the
disk... what have you got to lose?

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