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- From: glennl@pro-acsd.cts.com (Glenn Levine)
- Subject: Re: Disk drive sticktion(?)
- Organization: ProLine [pro-acsd] Apple Corps of San Diego
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 09:22:46 PDT
- Message-ID: <k834143@pro-acsd.cts.com>
- In-Reply-To: schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz)
- References: <1992Nov7.204232.9079@wl.com>
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- In <1992Nov7.204232.9079@wl.com> schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:
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- >In article <blaby.721125727@sfu.ca> blaby@fraser.sfu.ca (John Edward Blaby) writes:
- >>sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
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- >>>Odd, all this talk of stiction and 3.5" drives...I always thought
- >>>stiction was the exclusive problem of Seagate 5.25" drives.
- >>
- >>Nope..It is a problem with Quantum 105 as well. It just happened to me
- >>tonight of all things. We had a major powerfailure here and the bbs
- >>and drive were down for about three hours.
- >>
- >Can someone tell me exactly what is "stiction". I have an older Seagate
- >ST277N drive (circa 1987) and on rare occasions it won't come up to
- >speed and the drive LED flashes a number of times. When I power down and
- >re-boot, it usually goes away. Is this STICTION??
- >
- >Paul Schultz
- >schultp@wl.com
- >
- >--
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- I have a Segate 3.5 st137n harddrive and have had the same problem
- I also was getting stickion to a point were the drive would not work.
- Now it works but I it still sticks on first boot but works fine
- the second boot. Stickion is where the drive head sticks to the drive
- platter.
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