Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: *** HELP!!! *** Disk whine on a Seagate ST 251-1 Message-ID: <748@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 13:09:51 GMT References: <2571YZKCU@CUNYVM> <626@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <800@hemingway.WEITEK.COM> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 23 In article <800@hemingway.WEITEK.COM>, robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon) writes: | In article <626@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: | >In article <2571YZKCU@CUNYVM>, YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman) writes: | >| I am experiencing a whining noise from my hard disk drive. It is now | > | > Some Seagate drives have a static strap touching the end of the | >spindle. Just bend this to one side a little (1/32 inch usually does it) | >so it rubs on another part of the strap. | | The strap is there to dissipate static build-up on the spindle (and | platters, I guess). Bending the strap stops the whine, but possibly | the strap is there for a reason? No doubt, that why I was careful to say "a little" and "so it rubs on another part of the strap." Anyone who followed my advice *as written* will still have all the protection they ever did. No one who read what I wrote carefully would think that I was suggesting any operation which would interfere with the normal strap function, would one? -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon