> Anyway, my expensive 3Com server began to 'whistle' at about
> 10kHtz one day, and by the next morning it was screeching and
> warbling and quite obviously dying quickly. While it *was* backed up
> (the entire sales and marketing division was running in those 300
> MBytes) I still had throughput goals to achieve, so I got the 3Com
> tech-rep out. By the time he arrived people were coming in my office
> to see what that awful noise was... I couldn't believe it was still
> *spinning*... let alone reading and writing.
> "Yup." He said. "No problem.."
> It was the absolute filter in the top cover of the drive. They
> offered to fix it... not under warranty!!! because it was not
> mis-performing... just annoying the hell out of all and sundry.
:)
Reminds me of the good old BASF 13 MB hard disk drive. Around
1983 BASF, successfull in producing floppies also tried to get
a foot into the strong climbing hard disk market. So, they
designed a nice 5,25" half height 13 MB drive (funny sidefact:
the heady where moved thru a metal band mechanism, able to be
turned buy a plastic wheel from the outside - so you could
just positionate the head by hand .... or atatch a paper clip
to get a head position meter :). These drives had a small
spring atatched to the spindle (from outside - the turning
end of the spindle could be touched) for grounding. And now
and then this spring starts to give a high sound. Official
solution: a drop of oil ... So, next time when you give your
car new oil, save some for your vintage hard drive :)
Gruss
hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 23:13:45 GMT