Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!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 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 Lines: 13 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