Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!milano!bigtex!james
From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Another STRANGE hard disk problem
Keywords: Miniscribe, motor problems
Message-ID: <8525@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 26 Sep 88 11:40:32 GMT
References: <1254@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <1254@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) wrote:

> I turned on my PC one nice morning and discovered that the motor
> wasn't spinning!

My CDC Wren III-182s have a habit of doing this sometimes.  It never
overspins like George describes, but usually after a move across town
one of the two drives will refuse to spin up.  To get it going again,
I take it out of the computer and shake it along the spindle axis, and
it works.  I have been told this is just an artifact of the motor
design, but I have no idea if there is any truth to this.
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