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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (phil nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk problem
Summary: Sticky disk story
Message-ID: <139@antares.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 88 04:54:41 GMT
References: <20173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <47200012@hcx1> <105@simsdevl.UUCP>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
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In article <105@simsdevl.UUCP> dandc@simsdevl.UUCP (Dan DeClerck) writes:
>I've had the same problems with Seagate 4038 on an IBM PC AT (6 Mhz).
>Occasionally the drive does not spin.. the only solution is to remove the drive,
>and inertially rotate the spindle, then it seems fine for a while..
>I've called Seagate, and they want $275 w/o shipping & handling to fix it. I
>could almost replace the drive for that cost!! I'm pretty P.O'ed about it. 
>I may just change all the spec's for our existing customer's drives to CDC!!
>(WE use 4056's now).....


i have a 20meg MicroScience HH725A that i bought for $50. as is. i was told
that it was from a batch of drives with too much (or wrong formula) lubricant
on the surface. every time it stopped, the heads stuck to the platter. to get
it going, i had to give it a push. did that many times, it needed quite a
bit of force sometimes, but never had a head crash. i avoided pushing too
much by leaving it running. it's on the shelf now though, i shut it down
one day before a thunderstorm and couldn't get it to spin up again. oh well.

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