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- From: tadahiro.kubota@f11k.f.rd.honda.co.jp (Tadahiro Kubota)
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- Subject: Re: Problems with hard drive
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 04:30:34 GMT
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- Hi! This is Tadahiro Kubota
-
- > 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
-
- Do you have a experience to change power connector for HDs?
- I think your HD was broken around power supply in high ability.
- But if it was caused in Swithing power supply side, you may be
- able to recover to change power connector.
-