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- From: cm6700@ccub.wlv.ac.uk (G.Nath)
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- Subject: Re: Is this problem my hard disk or my SCSI?
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 13:00:29 -0000
- Organization: University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
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- ridgwad@PEAK.ORG (Dean Ridgway) writes:
-
- >Quantum drives manufactured between 1990 and (I believe) 1992 suffer from
- >a form of sticktion (yes, its spelled wrong :-( ) similar to that plagueing
- >early Seagate drives. Perhaps thats your problem. My Quantum P40S is
- >*NEVER* turned off and if I get a power glitch it can take me up to 15
- >minutes to get it to spin back up. If your drive is like mine, the "tick
- >tick" sound you hear is the drive's ROM trying to "bump" the head free (mine
- >only tries once though).
-
- I remember sometime ago that someone said it is possible to
- dislodge the actuator(?)/head by tapping the side of the drive
- *gently* with a plastic mallet wrapped in cloth (or equivalent).
- I am just passing on what i read before and accept *NO* responsibilty
- if you smash your drive to pieces :)
-
- GVN
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