Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ukma!rutgers!dayton!ems!quest!sheldon From: sheldon@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Busted Harddisk Message-ID: <984@quest.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 16:31:15 EDT Article-I.D.: quest.984 Posted: Thu Jul 9 16:31:15 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 08:38:21 EDT References: <613@homxc.UUCP> <627@homxc.UUCP> Reply-To: sheldon@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson) Organization: Quest Research Inc., Burnsville, MN Lines: 20 Keywords: Seagate Harddisk Xref: mnetor comp.sys.att:727 comp.sys.ibm.pc:5518 I have had this problem repeatedly with 2 of 7 7300s I have used over the last year and a half (with Miniscribe 20 Meg drives). We try to leave the machines on all the time to avoid this. Failing that, I have found (after the hassle of opening up the machine a couple of times and pushing on the spindle to free it) that I can turn the power on and give the machine a good whack perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the disk...both machines are working well (I've done it twice on 1 and once on the other). The first time I figured out what was wrong and pushed on the spindle, I found that it took more than a light push to free it. I worried that the drive might be ruined, but this has been going on for more than 6 months now with no catastrophes. The other machines seem to have no problems with this sort of thing. Scott S. Bertilson Minnesota Supercomputer Center Inc. (affiliated w/University of Minnesota) -- Scott S. Bertilson ...ihnp4!quest!sheldon or scott@uc.msc.umn.edu