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From: wilber@alice.UUCP (Bob Wilber)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: whining disks
Keywords: whine chirp disk
Message-ID: <9295@alice.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 89 00:22:47 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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ivan%djomolungma@Sun.COM (Ivan Soleimanipour) writes:
>All those suggestions to fix the whining due to the disk tab ...
>
>As for pushing the tab the other way .... whew ... you're talking about
>all of my software. Admittedly ??? from Convergent claimed that some of
>the newer disks are even shipped w/o the static tab. But all my other
>buddies around here recommend i _dont'_ cut that connection, or i'll be
>eventually getting more and more hard errors until the disk will need
>to go to a hospital.

I bent the anti-static tab down 7 months ago and have had no problems with
the disk whatsoever since then.

Bob Wilber
wilber@research.att.com