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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Problems with hard drive
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 08:48:51 GMT
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- In article <4gaha0$18cm@msunews.cl.msu.edu>,
- sinksmic@worf.msu.edu (Michael John Sinks) wrote:
- >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.
- >
- >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
-
- Copy everything you possibly can off onto floppies or another hard disk as fast
- as you can. That drive is just about to the trashcan stage of its life. If it is
- still under warranty you might be able to get a replacement for the drive. But
- the data on it will be lost when it finally will no longer spin. Good luck.
-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com
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