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From: heppell@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Problems with Seagate half height drives
Message-ID: <3035@zen.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 01:28:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 01:28:11 1987
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Keywords: seagate, hard disk


  Another possible suggestion to those of you having problems
with your Seagate (or other half height) hard drives:

In the process of installing a second floppy in my XT clone, I
had to remove and re-mount my ST-225.  Upon power-up, all I got
in reply was garbage (e.g., no boot from C:).  No cables were
connected backwards, etc, but when I took the mounting bracket
out of the computer to check, the drive worked.  My final solution
was to simply loosen the mounting screws, and viola! I have had
no problems since then (about 4 months).  I don't anticipate any
more.

Someone mentioned previous experience with floppy drives that had
non-flat cases, which warped when over-tightened.  I suspect a
similar problem.  Most hard drives will take a lot of abuse
(my 225 has a spec. of 40 g's), but common sense rules.

Disclaimer: Seagate is not responsible for my stupidity, nor
I for theirs.  The above opinion is worth its weight in gold.

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