Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-barr!lll-winken!ubvax!weitek!hemingway!robert 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 Lines: 23 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 robert@weitek.COM "No Toon can resist the old 'Shave and a Hair-Cut'"