Resource-Central Hard Drive Dies with ICON

[dreamer@ods.sol.net]

Well, Leif, I can't really offer you any advice on what to do, but I do
have a possibility about what your problem is after turning it off.  If
this drive is a fairly old one, and is unable to park it's own heads,
this could be your problem.  I got a drive from a user of mine, and was
using it for my BBS.  One night my girlfriend accidentally turned off
the drive.  I turned it back on but it wouldn't power up.  I started to
sweat as I'd never had this happen to me before.  I kept on turning it
off and on until it finally spun up to speed.  That really scared me.  I
think this happened once after that then I began to suspect that it was
an old non-parking drive and I started to use my park.heads util.  Ever
since that time, every time I power it down, I park the heads myself and
I've never had the problem again...Just a thought.

Give what you would like to receive,
Glenn
Lord Wilderness


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