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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More on the ST-225, and on Miniscribe
Summary: Spin starting MiniScribes
Message-ID: <743@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 22:56:02 GMT
References: <4347@zodiac.UUCP> <8839@dhw68k.cts.com> <3594@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
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In article <3594@tekgvs.TEK.COM>, keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
> In article <8839@dhw68k.cts.com> rob@dhw68k.cts.com (Robert Kenyon) writes:
> 
> >I have had a much worse time with miniscribe 20Ms. I have had to have
> >two of the five I have run into, fixed.
> 
> We bought 14 Miniscribe 3053's last October; one was d.o.a. and I'm
> in the process now of returning two for repair (one of the two has
> almost NO running time on it.
> 
> I'll wait a while before I buy any more 3053's.  Has anyone had any
> better luck?  It's too bad 'cuz they're neat, half-height 40
> Megabytes and really fast access times.
> 
> keith

I used to have very bad luck with all of our MiniScribe drives... they
had a high degree of failure with the only diagnostic being a flashing
led...  After returning several for replacement/repair and being stuck
with several out of warantee drives, my 20 meg. MiniScribe at home died!

After several calls to a freind who used to work for them I found that
All Miniscribe drives are prone to "stick" when trying to start their
motor!  This can be remedied by removing the drive and torquing it in the 
direction of platter motion.  Since dicovering this my home unit has failed
3 times and I have been able to restart it with this manuever.  I have
also used this sucessfully on over 20 systems on campus... with various
models of MiniScribe drives!

They really should install a crank on them!!!  I have yet to find a MiniScribe
that this would not fix... and I have yet to find another type of drive that
this would fix!

    Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center
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