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- From: gpb@gpb-mac. (greg berryman )
- Subject: Re: Disk drive sticktion(?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.023020.17841@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 02:30:20 GMT
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- george@hfglobe.intel.com (George Rachor) writes:
- : We receintly lost a disk drive in a Mac ][ ci to a problem known as drive
- : sticktion. This system was run continously for almost two years until a
- : power failure allowed the drive to cool for several hours. At that point the
- : drive simply failed to resume spinning. Our local dealer has managed to get
- : the drive spinning again and saved our data. We are going to replace the
- : drive as we simply cannot trust it now.
- :
- : I understand this is a common problem with 3.5 inch hard drives. Does anyone
- : know how the problem can be avoided? The system is used in an application
- : that gathers data 24 hours per day. Are some drives more prone to this problem?
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- I take care of about 100 Macs and we have seen the problem on Sony SRD2040
- drives ( covered by Apples extended warrenty ) and a few old 40MB Quantums.
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- We have been replacing them with 120MB drives from MicroNet (Maxtor data
- modules) without problems. I don't think that the problem is common to all
- 3.5 inch drives.
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