Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!uunet!tektronix!nosun!cvedc!mpease From: mpease@cvedc.UUCP (Mark Pease) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: LaCie disks -- "Well, how are they?" Keywords: disk drive, Macintosh, SCS,noise Message-ID: <671@marion.cvedc.UUCP> Date: 27 Mar 89 17:34:07 GMT References: <11176@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM> Reply-To: mpease@cvedc.UUCP (Mark Pease) Organization: Prime Computer, Computervision Beaverton Oregon Lines: 30 In article <11176@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM> kathie@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM (Kathleen Huddleston) writes: >My La Cie drive and also my Dataframe had noise problems (high >pitched squeaking, squeeling). It's caused by a tag that is >supposed to float just over the spindle area of the disk, but >over time starts to rub. [...] I was able to fix it myself >[...] It involves taking the drive apart, then >bending this tag up and completely out of the way of the spindle >area. [...] I was under the impression that the "tag" was there to ground out any static buildup (Maybe they should have used some "Bounce" sheets :-) If this is true, bending the tag away from the spindle could cause the spinning disk to develop a large static charge that could "arc" over to some place in the disk (like maybe the head assembley ?-). In any case, the arc could cause some lose of data on the disk. I have noted, on drives that have become squeaky, that the pad on the end of the tab has become indented and polished. I have taken a -metel- nail file and ruffened the the pad to remove the polish. This operation has stoped the squeak on every drive I have tried it on (All of one.) I am not recomeneding this procedure. Nor is Prime/Compuervision. Please don't hold me responsible if you try it. My recomendition is to contact La Cie and talk to the service people. -- Mark Pease ..tektronix.csnet!ogccse.uucp!cvedc!mpease Prime Computer, Inc. ..sun.arpa!cvbnet.uucp!cvedc!mpease 14952 N.W. Greenbrier Pkway Beaverton, Oregon 97006 (503)645-2410