home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!nntp1.radiomail.net!fernwood!rtbrain!rightbrain.com
- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Hard Drive problems (?)
- Message-ID: <878@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 06:22:13 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.164951.2222@moksha.uucp>
- Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com
- Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com
- Lines: 20
-
- (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 ear plugs in my ears as I type this. The drive on my NeXTstation
- has been sounding like brake pads on metal for many weeks, and it's driving
- me nuts. I'm about to have it serviced, except that I don't want to let
- go of my machine long enough to do whatever it takes to fix it :-( It's
- a 400Mb drive, for what it's worth.
-
- --
- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
- RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
- Palo Alto, California
-