Re: The laws of Chaos Theory and my IIGS

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Ron Pedelty <rpedelty@mcs.com> wrote:

>My 700 Mbyte external hard drive, connected via a RamFast SCSI card, now
>sounds like it's spinning up ("wheeeeeee") from time to time while my
>computer has been on without interuption.  When this happens, the
>computer often freezes up when I try to access the drive (get data,
>save, switch apps), and rebooting gives me a RamFast Fatal Memory error
>until I shut down completely, count to 10, and power up again.  What's
>up?

It is called sticktion...the drive gets stuck trying to spin from time to time.
As hard drives age, this tends to happen.  There is nothing you can do
about it except change drives and copy the information to a new one.

Actually, I have read about people modifying the drive so that a higher
voltage goes to the drive motor to compensate, but I don't know how to
do this...