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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: binddrivers noise with A2090 / MiniScribe
Message-ID: <8299@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 11 Apr 88 17:48:47 GMT
References: <3778@killer.UUCP| <942@astroatc.UUCP|
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Keywords: A2090 Binddrivers MiniScribe noise hard drive

In article <942@astroatc.UUCP| jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener) writes:
|In article <3778@killer.UUCP| jdp@killer.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
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||     Why does my MiniScribe make a buzz saw type noise when my startup-sequence
||does a Binddrivers.  Is this harmful?  Can it be avoided?  (Please dont suggest
||removing the hard drive.)  It sounds like it is stepping from the park zone
||back to the first cylinder.  Any comments,
|
|	Whew!  Good question,  And I though it was just me that had this
|problem!  I have an st251, the 1st time my amy boots, it makes a few clicks.
|But when I reboot after its been on a while; I get the buzz-saw from hell
|sound effect and pray my disk isn't being munged.  This is very unnerving.

Ok guys, you want more details?  When a disk is first started it will
move the arm to track 0 , or whatever place it considers the beginning of 
the disk. That's what produces the noise (depending on the disk there
might other initializations that are done, too). So the bottom line is:
you'll have to live with the noise, whether you like it or not :-).

-- Marco
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