Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!schuster
From: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Noisy Powerdown on ST-251
Summary: Probably harmless
Message-ID: <5893@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 88 14:34:32 GMT
References: <776@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster)
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Organization: The Big Electric Cat; New York, N.Y. USA
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In article <776@cbnews.ATT.COM> mjv@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mike Vehonsky) writes:
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>	I recently installed an ST-251 in my AT-clone.  When I powerdown
>	the system, the drive makes a fairly loud GRRRRRRRRRR sound for about
>	three seconds.  It this the sound of the automatic head parking

Mine has made the same noise on powerdown for two whole years. It's
still working fine. In a recent issue of BYTE, they reviewed 40 MB hard
disks and noticed that the ST-251 made a noise which sounds as we describe.
I guess it's a "feature". In any case it does not seem to do any harm to the
drive or the data stored therein.
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