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From: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Noisy hard disks
Message-ID: <346@manta.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 04:35:34 GMT
Reply-To: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia
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My 3b1 hard disk is starting to make noise (whining).  Major
irritation.  The following repair strategies have been suggested: (1)
solder or tape some "stuff" to the static discharge arm (SDA)
underneath the drive spindle to alter its resonant frequency, (2)
remove the SDA.

I recall that there was some controversy over whether (2) was a good
idea.  What is the potential danger of that approach?  Are there
better strategies that I don't know about?
-- 
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant