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From: john@jclyde.UUCP (John B. Meaders Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Computer problems.
Keywords: Seagate ST-251, AT clone
Message-ID: <807@jclyde.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 20:48:52 GMT
References: <3341@rayssd.ray.com>
Reply-To: john@jclyde.UUCP (John B. Meaders Jr.)
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In article <3341@rayssd.ray.com> trr@rayssd.ray.com (Terry R. Raymond) writes:

>I have an AT clone (Uniq 286) with a Seagate ST-251 hard disk.
>
>Question #1
>
>When I turn off the power the disk drive chatters briefly.  Would somebody
>who has experience with this behavior please tell me if it can cause
>problems.  Should the drive be returned or is this normal?  Please, no
>speculations I can do that myself.

The chattering noise is the heads parking themselves.  The ST-251 parks its
heads on power-off.  There should be no problems, on the contrary, this is
*good* behavior :-).  You shouldn't have to return the drive since this
is normal behavior.

>Question #2

Sorry, can't answer that one.

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