Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!dataio!pilchuck!ssc!fyl From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Disk drives Message-ID: <1425@ssc.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 88 20:59:14 GMT References: <1988Aug11.142740.10281@ateng.uucp> <11190012@hpisoa1.HP.COM> <1402@wa4mei.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Slugland, USA Lines: 7 [story of funny noise from hd and one solution deleted] The noise is generally caused by resonance in the spring that holds the grounding contact on the spindel. I found that putting a piece of tape on the spring would change the resonant frequency and the noise would go away. -- Phil uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl