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From: leonard@percival.pdx.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems with Seagate half height drives
Message-ID: <779@percival.pdx.com>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 21:26:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: percival.779
Posted: Fri Jul 10 21:26:29 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 16:03:40 EDT
References: <3035@zen.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: leonard@percival.pdx.com (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
Lines: 15
Keywords: seagate, hard disk
Summary: yep, it seems to be the screws!

I've run a few informal experiments at work. Since we have around 10-15
PC's that have been upgraded to XT's by adding ST-225s and several XT's
that have had the original drives replaced with them, I have all too _much_
experience.

My (natural) mistake was to use the mounting screws from the previous drive.
This puts pressure on the case of the drive. After a lot of intermittent
problems, I now routinely trim the screws down until they are just long enough
to use. I no longer see the problems.

-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]		...!tektronix!reed!percival!!bucket!leonard
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."