Re: Disk drive sticktion(?)

[lalonde@semifs3 (Terry Lalonde)]

george@hfglobe.intel.com (George Rachor) writes:

>We receintly lost a disk drive in a Mac ][ ci to a problem known as drive
>sticktion.  This system was run continously for almost two years until a 
>power failure allowed the drive to cool for several hours.  At that point the 
>drive simply failed to resume spinning.  Our local dealer has managed to get
>the drive spinning again and saved our data.  We are going to replace the 
>drive as we simply cannot trust it now.

>I understand this is a common problem with 3.5 inch hard drives.  Does anyone
>know how the problem can be avoided?  The system is used in an application 
>that gathers data 24 hours per day.  Are some drives more prone to this problem?
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