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Skriven 2006-01-05 02:20:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av TOM WALKER
Ärende: Crash !
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Hello Tom - 

JE>>> Early SEAGATE HD were manufactured with a poor quality
JE>>> Lubricant that leaked out onto the Platters and
JE>>> Read/Write heads when it heated up, and would Gell when
JE>>> cooled off when the Computer was shut down or went into
JE>>> Hibernation. 

JE>> I was under the impression that the lubricant was actually
JE>> applied to the platter surfaces during manufacture to
JE>> lessen the possible head to platter damage during start up
JE>> and stopping. 

TW> That is how I recal lit. 

You "recal lit" wrong. 

TW> and perhaps a little of the lubricant getting whipped
TW> arround by the spinning platters from the Heat. Rembember
TW> those drives ran veryhot as I recall 

JE>>>  The ONLY two Practical solutions to Stiction was: 

JE>>> 1.) Leave the Computer ON 24/7 as most BBS  Sysops were
JE>>> prone to do, or 

JE>>>  2.) Replace the HD with a different Brand HD 

JE>> Well, there was one other sometimes solution: Bang on the
JE>> side of the computer case on startup! 

TW> At the local VA I left several machines running 24/7
TW> becasue of that problem. I found that if the case was given
TW> a quick snap, Horizontal quick twist and return in the
TW> plane of the platter rotation sometimes broke the plater
TW> loose using the inerta of the plattrer. But typicaly a
TW> sharp slap up beside the computer case also did it as you
TW> said. :-) :-) 

Just imagining you doing "a quick snap", "horizontal quick
twist", and "sharp slap up beside the computer case" is
priceless. What an entertaining fellow you must have been to
watch. :-) 

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