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From: ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A2500 harddrive still won't work - even with hddisk.device
Keywords: 2500,busted,harddrive,hddisk.device,spam,mazola
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Date: 11 Apr 89 04:04:12 GMT
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In article <3918@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> u572555600ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Frank Kuan) writes:
>Also, the hard drive itself whines in a high pitched noise that's really
>noisy, really noticable, and 30 times louder and more intense than
>the high pitch whine from Televisions and CRT's. Is my hard drive bad?
hoo-boy...sure your heads did not crash?????  Now, I should say that the hard
disk that had a crash that I witnessed was not an Amiga hard disk, but was on
an MAI BASIC/4 (a rather bulky mini).  The crash started as a loud whine, and
progressed into something that sounded like a radial arm saw cutting a joist.
On this machine, it did that in a minute, but then again, this drive was one
removable pack/platter above a nonremovable platter, i.e., not sealed like
today's disks (matter of fact, the platters held only 10M and were somewhere
between 0.25 and 0.50 meters -- yes, HUGH by today's standards for that kind
of storage)