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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk problem
Summary: Yet Another Flaky Seagate
Message-ID: <11878@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 20 Aug 88 16:02:17 GMT
References: <20173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <6339@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante)
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reza0@ihlpl.ATT.COM (H. Reza Zarafshar) writes:
-
-  ... [Seagate ST-225's] would work fine for a few months and [then] would
-refuse to boot, which we thought was heat sensitive because on the cold
-machines, if we let them sit turned on for a while, they would then boot
-by pushin the reset or the 3 finger salute of ctrl alt del.  We saw some
-that would not boot when they were warm also, but would boot if cold.
-I really think that this is typical of all Seagates, I am basing this
-on our experience with them.  

I have one of those notorious ST-238/Adaptec-2070 combinations that gave
everyone problems when they first came out, but I thought I'd gotten past
the adolescent blues and that I had a well-behaved, middle-aged drive.

This summer I've learned better.  It's been so hot that I finally had to
start using an airconditioner, which because of its placement chills my
machine much better than it chills me.  Lo And Behold!  My drive is acting
up again.  In fact, if I run it without the A/C, it eventually heats up to
the point where I get manymany errors.  I have to shut down and let it
cool off.  If I let the A/C run overnight with the computer off, and then
power up, I *also* get manymany errors.  I have to let it run for a few
minutes until it warms up sufficiently, then it's happy again.  So my
harddisk has a fairly narrow successful-operating-temperature range.

Note that both Norton and chkdsk report errors, but these aren't "real" in
that the data is still perfectly accessible if I let the machine settle
into its operating temperature.  Wish I'd realized that before I let
chkdsk "recover" my Fastback directory... :-( :-)
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