On Aug 10, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Billy Holmes wrote:

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:


Probably was suffering from "stiction"  (google it)


I'm pretty sure this HD had autoparking heads (I'm almost positive all IDE drives have). I could see it being a problem if it was an MFM drive however...

stiction occurred with drives with autoparking heads... They just park on special zones of the drive that do not contain data

Chad


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