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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Another STRANGE hard disk problem
Keywords: Miniscribe, motor problems
Message-ID: <3226@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 88 19:46:00 GMT
References: <1254@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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In article <1254@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes:
}... I turned on my PC one nice morning and discovered
}that the motor wasn't spinning!  ...
}... the motor was increasing speed, till the speed
}was above normal, the whole desk was vibrating and I thought my whole
}PC will take off !!  I turned the PC off and on again and the disk was
}dead again.  ... it always overspins,
}at random intervals though.  Sometimes, it is sitting dead and starts 
}spinning like crazy ...

This week's "Time" magazine cover story mentions a computer virus that has
this effect.  They give no details, just a virus that speeds up disk
drives, causing them to wear out faster.

-- 
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