brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (04/12/88)
My 3b1 hard disk is starting to make noise (whining). Major irritation. The following repair strategies have been suggested: (1) solder or tape some "stuff" to the static discharge arm (SDA) underneath the drive spindle to alter its resonant frequency, (2) remove the SDA. I recall that there was some controversy over whether (2) was a good idea. What is the potential danger of that approach? Are there better strategies that I don't know about? -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant