Re: Disk drive sticktion(?)

[gpb@gpb-mac. (greg berryman )]

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?

I take care of about 100 Macs and we have seen the problem on Sony SRD2040
drives ( covered by Apples extended warrenty ) and a few old 40MB Quantums.

We have been replacing them with 120MB drives from MicroNet (Maxtor data
modules) without problems.  I don't think that the problem is common to all
3.5 inch drives.

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