Re: Disk drive sticktion(?)

[glennl@pro-acsd.cts.com (Glenn Levine)]

In <1992Nov7.204232.9079@wl.com> schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:

>In article <blaby.721125727@sfu.ca> blaby@fraser.sfu.ca (John Edward Blaby) writes:
>>sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>>
>>>Odd, all this talk of stiction and 3.5" drives...I always thought
>>>stiction was the exclusive problem of Seagate 5.25" drives.
>>
>>Nope..It is a problem with Quantum 105 as well. It just happened to me
>>tonight of all things. We had a major powerfailure here and the bbs
>>and drive were down for about three hours.
>>
>Can someone tell me exactly what is "stiction".  I have an older Seagate
>ST277N drive (circa 1987) and on rare occasions it won't come up to
>speed and the drive LED flashes a number of times.  When I power down and
>re-boot, it usually goes away.  Is this STICTION??
>
>Paul Schultz
>schultp@wl.com
>
>-- 

I have a Segate 3.5 st137n  harddrive and have had the same problem
I also was getting stickion to a point were the drive would not work.
Now it works but I it still sticks on first boot but works fine 
the second boot.  Stickion is where the drive head sticks to the drive
platter.