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- Path: sparky!uunet!netnews!capd.jhuapl.edu!waltrip
- From: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu
- Subject: Re: Hard Drive problems (?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.180722.1@capd.jhuapl.edu>
- Lines: 19
- Sender: usenet@netnews.jhuapl.edu
- Organization: CAPVAX, JHU/APL
- References: <1992Sep2.175234.6972@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:07:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.175234.6972@nntp.uoregon.edu>, cdelay@inferno.uoregon.edu
- (Christian De Lay) writes:
- > I'm getting some awfully weird noises from my (406MB) hard drive in my 9
- > month old NeXTstation mono. Occasionally the drive will make a high pitch
- > whining sound (which sounds similar to a skill saw "powering down") for no
- > apparent reason. Now, I've had this machine long enough to know that this
- > probably isn't a normal sound for the beast to be making.
- >
- > What I want to know is this: Has anyone else experienced this problem? Are
- > there any known problems with NeXT's hard drives?
- I have a mono NeXTstation also with the 400 MB drive and I have heard a
- similar sound a couple of times. Couldn't swear it's the drive,
- though. Might be a fan.
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