sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) (05/02/90)
In article <2918@darkstar.ucsc.edu> ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes: >>In article <3553@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes: >>> There have been many postings here about Seagate hard drives >>>failing to spin up at boot. I have seen not ONE posting about > >IMHO you have to take some of these "Saegate-disk-didn't-spin-up" reports >with a grain (sack?) of salt. Unless the disk case is open while it's running, >how are you gonna know??? I think people have heard of this kind of failure >mode in a few Seagates, and invoke it whenever they have a problem.:-) > -ted- In my case, the Seagate ST138R DEFINITELY fails to spin. The sound made by my C: drive is so distinctive, I could never mistake a spin failure. And, as I stated in my first posting, I have had to pull the drive out, spin its hub, and put it back in on an almost DAILY basis for the last several months. This ALWAYS cures the problem. I am trying to get a reading through this group on whether this is a typical failure for current hard drive technology independent of manufacturer. -bd- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Davis \\\ INTERNET : sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com Harris Corporation, ESS \\\ UUCP : ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!sonny Advanced Technology Department \\\ AETHER : K4VNO PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 \\\ VOICE : (407) 727-5886 Melbourne, FL 32902 \\\ FAX : (407) 729-2537