Re: sider hard drive

[jdb8042@tam2000.tamu.edu (John Donald Baker)]

In article <1995Jul11.014925.3467@lafn.org> ae198@lafn.org (leroy humphries) writes:
>From: ae198@lafn.org (leroy humphries)
>Subject: sider hard drive
>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 01:49:25 GMT
>
>Well I have this problem with this drive and hope someone can help me. I 
>aquired this drive about a week ago and the only way I could use it is 
>plug the card into slot 6 and access it that way. But yesterday I got a 
>funny clicking sound out of the Sider and have not figured out what it 
>is. The Sider won't operate so it looks like its something internal so if 
>someone who has had this same problem or who know what is wrong please 
>leave me a message here.

>Leroy,

Would describe the clicking?  Is it rapid (several times per second) or
slow (1 second or more between clicks).

If the clicking is rapid, I would suggest a power supply problem.  I've
had some drives that could suck a power supply down so far that the
drives' spindle brake would sit there chattering because there wasn't
enough energy to keep it off and spin the drive up too.

Just my $0.02.


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