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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Problems with hard drive
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 05:33:49 GMT
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- In article <4gaha0$18cm@msunews.cl.msu.edu> sinksmic@worf.msu.edu (Michael John Sinks) writes:
- > I've had this little problem with my hard drive for a few months now. The
- > stupid thing always has problems with spinning for the first few minutes
- > of operation. When I first boot the computer, the drive usually spins up
- > fine. However, after everything is loaded, I can hear the whine slow
- > down and speed up. If I try to load a program then, a fast cache (prog
- > from Aminet) comes up saying it had trouble reading in data. At the
- > same time, the hard drive stops spinning completely. When I choose
- > either retry or cancel, the drive trys to spin back up, but it just
- > can't seem to reach speed. Sometimes I just let the computer sit for
- > a while, and the drive will finally correct itself. Sometimes I have
- > to perform multiple reboots, and sometimes I have to turn off the computer
- > and then flip it back on. Can someone tell me what's happening here?
- > Is my drive about to die? It's only about a year and a half old.
-
- I'd say that was a fair assumption! Time to dig out the warranty papers.
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- >
- > My setup:
- > Amiga 2000 with A3001 68030 accelerator
- > GVP A4008 SCSI card (drive is mounted to it)
- > 2.1 OS
- > 245 meg Maxtor SCSI drive (3.5")
- > 300 Watt Bigfoot power supply
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