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- From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine)
- Subject: Re: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
- Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
- Date: 25 Jan 93 06:13:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <paul.727942408@suite.sw.oz.au>
- References: <1330@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
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- In <1330@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster) writes:
-
- >I have just installed a new scsi II hard drive, a Micropolis 2112
- >3 1/2" one gig. drive on a Buslogic 747s EISA controller.
-
- >Most (not quite all) the bugs are out, however one thing worries me
- >somewhat. Every so often on intervals on the order of 20 to 30
- >minutes apart, (not too regular) there is a momentary sound from
- >the hard drive that lasts for about one second (by my reckoning)
- >and sound like the drive has been given a seek command. Is this
- >possible?
-
- This is normal: most newer drives do this to avoid a stiction problem
- first made famous in Quantum hard drives (the 40, 80 and 100MB Pro
- Drive series). It is not harmful, and only occasionally impinges upon
- both the senses and performance of the drive (at least, my Fujitsu
- seems to do it regardless of other disk operations in progress).
-
-
- Paul
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