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From: robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: *** HELP!!! *** Disk whine on a Seagate ST 251-1
Message-ID: <800@hemingway.WEITEK.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 89 18:49:49 GMT
References: <2571YZKCU@CUNYVM> <626@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon)
Organization: WEITEK, Sunnyvale CA
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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?

Anyway, UPGRADING AND REPAIRING PC'S, a book everyone who reads this
newsgroup should run out and get, suggests that a drop of "silicone
rubber" on the exposed part of the strap (the side that doesn't touch
anything) will damp the vibration without affecting the strap's
operation. don't get any "silly rubber" between the strap and the
spindle.

	-- Robert
-- 
    Robert Plamondon
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    "No Toon can resist the old 'Shave and a Hair-Cut'"