Hi!  Remember the blearrnnnnt-meeeeeelrp sounding seek oscillation noise
that the RD54 makes when you turn it on -- after it spins up, unlatches and
loads the heads?

Well, I took a chance on an el-(c)heapo ePay special RD54 that does all
these things perfectly up until the seek oscillation thing and then only
makes one steady meeee- sound that seems to last indefinitely (or at least
until I get tired of listening to it after a few minutes).

Would anyone here know enough about these disks to venture a guess at where
to begin troubleshooting this?


thx
jake

P.S.  If I'm being too vague, let me restate: I can hear it spin up,
bearings sound normal, hear it unlock its head lock latch, then a perfectly
*slight* noise of head actuation and the normal accompanying barely audible
riding-on-air head noise.  Then I expect to hear the two seek tones, but
only get one steady seek tone that lasts (I assume) forever.

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