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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
Summary: static strap
Message-ID: <626@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 12:31:50 GMT
References: <2571YZKCU@CUNYVM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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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.

  If you don't have a strap this advice didn't cost anything, did it?
-- 
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