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- From: moksha!mgb (Michael Branton)
- Subject: Re: Hard Drive problems (?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.164951.2222@moksha.uucp>
- Sender: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
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- References: <1992Sep2.175234.6972@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 16:49:51 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?
- >
- > --
- > cdelay@inferno.uoregon.edu
- > NeXTmail gladly accepted.
-
- I too have heard this sound from my 406MB drive on my color station. Twice.
- It's kind of scary. I haven't had any problems with the drive yet, though.
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- -Michael
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