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