Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!imagine!rpics!kyriazis From: kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Another STRANGE hard disk problem Keywords: Miniscribe, motor problems Message-ID: <1254@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 88 01:10:58 GMT Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) Organization: RPI CS Dept. Lines: 22 I have a Miniscribe 3438 Hard Disk with a WD1002-27X controller and a strange problem. I turned on my PC one nice morning and discovered that the motor wasn't spinning! I was surprised, 'cause it was working fine over one year and I never had any problems. I managed to do my work without a hard disk, since mostly I use the PC as a terminal. After a few off-on cycles I heard my motor spinning again! You can't imagine how happy I was. Well, the motor was increasing speed, till the speed was above normal, the whole desk was vibrating and I thought my whole PC will take off !! I turned the PC off and on again and the disk was dead again. Till then the motor seems to be "working" (it always overspins, at random intervals though. Sometimes, it is sitting dead and starts spinning like crazy, so I have to save my work quickly and turn off the power!). Does anybody know anything about this problem? I'd be very thankful if somebody could help. Thanks. George Kyriazis kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu ------------------------------