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  2. From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
  4. Subject: Re: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.075231.5001@spcvxb.spc.edu>
  6. Date: 25 Jan 93 12:52:31 GMT
  7. References: <1330@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
  8. Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi
  9. Organization: St. Peter's College, US
  10. Lines: 11
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  12. In article <1330@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>, manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster) writes:
  13. > Anybody seen this before???
  14. > Is this potentially serious? Is there some line on the controller
  15. > card being improperly triggered every so often??
  16.  
  17.   This is probably a "sweep cycle", designed to keep the heads from sitting
  18. idle over one part of the disk for extended periods.
  19.  
  20.     Terry Kennedy        Operations Manager, Academic Computing
  21.     terry@spcvxa.bitnet    St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
  22.     terry@spcvxa.spc.edu    +1 201 915 9381
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