Re: Hard Drive Scare...

[gdr@eddore.myrias.com (Devin Reade)]

In article <31BAA37F.1550@pop3.concentric.net>,
Bill Shuff  <bill2060@concentric.net> wrote:

>There are two work arounds for the stiction problem, one is to never 
>shut the drive off. That will not appreciably shorten its life.  The 
>second is to pick up the drive when the power is turned on and give the 
>case a sharp twist in the horizontal plane.

It's not strictly necessary to do this with the power on.  We have
some Quantum 105S stiction drives in one of our older Sun workstations.
When it sticks we do the "sharp rotation in the horizontal plane",
replace it in the case, and power up.  The key is that there is only
one portion of the platter revolution where it sticks; if you get past
that area, the drive has enough momentum to continue to pass it on
future revolutions and properly spin up.

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	Devin Reade	gdr@eddore.myrias.ab.ca