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- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!hippo!pi
- From: pi@cs.sun.ac.za (Pieter Immelman)
- Subject: Re: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.075051.18273@hippo.ru.ac.za>
- Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za
- Reply-To: pi@cs.sun.ac.za
- Organization: University of Stellenbosch
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- References: <paul.727942408@suite.sw.oz.au>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:50:51 GMT
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- In <paul.727942408@suite.sw.oz.au>, Paul Antoine (paul@suite.sw.oz.au) wrote:
- : 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).
-
- The same happens with my Micropolis drive. The only thing that puzzles
- me is that all these SCSI drives are supposed to be intelligent, so why
- is it trying to move the heads around while they are actually moving
- around doing reads and writes? Why can't these drives wait until it is
- idle for a while before moving the heads around?!
-
- -- pi
-