ivan%djomolungma@Sun.COM (Ivan Soleimanipour) (05/03/89)
All those suggestions to fix the whining due to the disk tab ... First, if you pushed the tab "up" (towards the spindle) you'll be back there in less than two months opening the guts of your machine and pushing it in again. i've tried putting stuff around it, to keep the pressure on, but that doesn't help either. So far i've done it about 5 times in two years. (i know that doesn't add up with the 2 months, but it's a question of patience). As for pushing the tab the other way .... whew ... you're talking about all of my software. Admittedly ??? from Convergent claimed that some of the newer disks are even shipped w/o the static tab. But all my other buddies around here recommend i _dont'_ cut that connection, or i'll be eventually getting more and more hard errors until the disk will need to go to a hospital.
danl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.r.levy) (05/04/89)
In article <102580@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, ivan%djomolungma@Sun.COM (Ivan Soleimanipour) writes:
< All those suggestions to fix the whining due to the disk tab ...
< First, if you pushed the tab "up" (towards the spindle) you'll be back
< there in less than two months opening the guts of your machine and
< pushing it in again.
< As for pushing the tab the other way .... whew ... you're talking about
< all of my software.
Just speculating ... could something else, less likely to make rubbing noises
(like a piece of copper braid) be soldered to the tab to be used as the contact
surface?
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ivan%djomolungma@Sun.COM (Ivan Soleimanipour) writes: >All those suggestions to fix the whining due to the disk tab ... > >As for pushing the tab the other way .... whew ... you're talking about >all of my software. Admittedly ??? from Convergent claimed that some of >the newer disks are even shipped w/o the static tab. But all my other >buddies around here recommend i _dont'_ cut that connection, or i'll be >eventually getting more and more hard errors until the disk will need >to go to a hospital. I bent the anti-static tab down 7 months ago and have had no problems with the disk whatsoever since then. Bob Wilber wilber@research.att.com