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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Subject: Re: My Quantum 105 has the shakes. Ideas?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.153634.17525@lin.foa.se>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:36:34 GMT
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- butler@quest.comm.mot.com (Jim Butler) writes:
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- > I would suspect that this type of behaviour is unusual, since a
- To say the least.
- >hard drive is a fairly precise piece of machinery (as consumer items go).
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- > Am I sitting on a time bomb?
-
- Sure sounds like it. I'd guess that the disk somehow is mounted off axis and
- doing excentric rotation. Tho' why it continues to work in that case is totally
- beyond me. Be sure to keep recent back-ups!
-
- cheers
- --
- Erik Svensson
- Research Officer National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- Guided Weapons Division Stockholm, Sweden eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
-
- "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
- -- Hobbes
-