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- From: eks@daimi.aau.dk (Eigil Krogh S|rensen)
- Subject: Re: Anyone have Seagate ST3283A drive?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.185400.12451@daimi.aau.dk>
- Keywords: Seagate ST3283A
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <1d9a6jINN3mg@spool.mu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 18:54:00 GMT
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- bruce@bruces.frontiertech.com writes:
-
- >About three months ago I bought a Seagate ST3283A hard drive
- >(that's the 240 MB, 12ms model). When I installed it, it made an
- >extremely high-pitched, ear-piercing whine that could be heard in the
- >next room. I called tech support, they said "Bad bearings, send it back."
- >I did, and got a new drive. The new one was much quieter, but still
- >made a very audible whirring sound (at least as loud as the power
- >supply fan). Since it was quieter, I thought "Well, maybe this model
- >just makes more noise than my previous drive because it is bigger and
- >faster." Then, wierd things started happening in Windows, like
- >"Extremely Low on Memory" errors with no apps running and 8MB of real
- >RAM. I began to suspect the drive was hiccupping and doing bad
- >things to Windows' attempts to access the swapfile. The problems
- >subsided when I turned off Windows' 32-bit access option. Last night,
- >Windows locked up solid with no warnings or errors. It took a hardware
- >reset to unlock it. Then my machine wouldn't boot from hard disk or
- >floppy until I powered it down and up again. The power-on self
- >test kept reporting "HDD Failure." Looks to me like another bad drive.
-
- >So, my question is this: Has anyone else on this group gotten the
- >ST3283A? What were your expereneces? Is this drive loud by nature, or
- >have I gotten two bad apples in a row? I am interested in any experiences,
- >good and bad, so I know whether to keep exchanging this for the same
- >model or cut my losses and get a different drives.
-
- >Thanks in advance,
- >Bruce A Backman (bruce@frontiertech.com)
-
-
-
- Undoubtedly the problem with your disk is bad sectors. I had exatly the same
- problems with ST3283N (Same drive but with SCSI interface). My advice is
- to get a different drive !
-
- The ST3283N drives I tried didn't make much noise.
-
-
- --- Eigil
-