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From: danl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.r.levy)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: whining disks
Keywords: whine chirp disk
Message-ID: <670@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 May 89 18:03:29 GMT
References: <102580@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <102580@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, ivan%djomolungma@Sun.COM (Ivan Soleimanipour) writes:
< All those suggestions to fix the whining due to the disk tab ...
< First, if you pushed the tab "up" (towards the spindle) you'll be back
< there in less than two months opening the guts of your machine and
< pushing it in again. 

< As for pushing the tab the other way .... whew ... you're talking about
< all of my software.

Just speculating ... could something else, less likely to make rubbing noises
(like a piece of copper braid) be soldered to the tab to be used as the contact
surface?
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