On Thursday 30 December 2004 11:16, John Lawson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, chris wrote:
> > I've got someone asking me about a Profile hard drive in a Lisa 2/10. He
> > says it makes a loud screaming noise when it is running. Maybe bad
> > bearings?
>
> 72 years ago, I was in charge of an early 3Com LAN, with drives in
> stacked 'shoeboxes'. I came in one Monday morning to find one of the
> drives making this thin 'shrieking' noise.
>
> I of course did a panic shutdown and got the Vendor rolling - turns out
> that it was the Absolute Filter on top of the drive case making the same
> kind of noise that one makes by blowing across a piece of taut paper. The
> tech just pressed down on the aluminum cover at the edge of the filter
> 'pod' and that fixed it.
>
> I was sure the heads had crashed, but somehow the system was still
> running - though I couldn't see how, since it sounded like the heads were
> milling the platters into expensive red dust.
>
> Maybe this is what's happening here??
>
>
> Cheers and Happy NuYeer to all and sundry!
>
> John
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Lyle Bickley
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