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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
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 16:31:15 1987
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Organization: Quest Research Inc., Burnsville, MN
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Keywords: Seagate Harddisk
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  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)
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Scott S. Bertilson   ...ihnp4!quest!sheldon or scott@uc.msc.umn.edu