philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (10/25/90)
Increasingly often, my 105M Qunatum (internal HD, IIci) carries on making noise after completing a disk access, and only stops if I do another disk access. Any ideas as to the cause / how serious this is? -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
clay@iti.org (Clay A. Maeckel) (10/26/90)
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: >Increasingly often, my 105M Qunatum (internal HD, IIci) carries on making >noise after completing a disk access, and only stops if I do another >disk access. Any ideas as to the cause / how serious this is? Mine has started doing this also. (It's a MacinStor from Storage Dimensions) The noise sounds like the heads are seeking back and forth slows down disk accesses quite a bit when it is occuring. This weekend I'm taking it out of my SE/30 and sending it to Storage Dimenstions for "repair". --Clay -- Clay Maeckel * UUCP: {ames,apple,portal,sun,voder}!claris!clay (I know nothing!) * Internet: clay@claris.com * GEnie: C.MAECKEL Claris Corporation * AppleLink: Maeckel1 * CompuServe: 73057,255
stevem@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Steve Miller) (11/09/90)
>>Increasingly often, my 105M Qunatum (internal HD, IIci) carries on making >>noise after completing a disk access, and only stops if I do another >>disk access. Any ideas as to the cause / how serious this is? > >Mine has started doing this also. (It's a MacinStor from Storage Dimensions) >The noise sounds like the heads are seeking back and forth slows down disk >accesses quite a bit when it is occuring. This weekend I'm taking it out >of my SE/30 and sending it to Storage Dimenstions for "repair". This may be a little hard to believe, but as I remember some Quantum hard disks had a firmware "Fix" to fix a head sticking problem. The fix is to move the head back and forth to keep it loose. Steven Miller