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- From: jbutcher@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Jim Butcher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hard Drive Problem
- References: <1992Aug3.195722.19640@athena.mit.edu>
- Message-ID: <jbutcher.074v@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca>
- Date: 11 Aug 92 08:19:24 MST
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- In article <1992Aug3.195722.19640@athena.mit.edu>, ascheng@athena.mit.edu
- (Adelbert S Cheng) writes:
- >Recently, my hard drive has been making a high-pitched humming/whining
- >sound. It is really quite annoying and I would like to make it stop.
- >The noise starts usually about 5 ~ 10 minutes after I turn on my machine
- >and is constant (i.e. doesn't just occur during read/writes). Could
- >anyone out there enlighten me as to what the problem might be? By the
- >way, the drive is a Seagate ST-251-1 (I think that's the model).
- >
- >Thanks!
- >____________________________________________________________________________
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- > _
- > (_` _/) A. S. (Ed) Cheng Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- > (__ (_\_ ascheng@athena.mit.edu Sloan Automotive Laboratory
- >____________________________________________________________________________
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- I had exactly the same problem with a hard drive awhile back, and surprise
- surprise, it was also a seagate model ST-251-1. This started happening shortly
- before the drive died, so i would suggest you do a backup and start shopping
- for a new hard drive. Needless to say i did not buy another seagate ST-251-1.
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