This one time, at band camp, Tom Lee said: > > > however, it still would experience 'sticktion' half the time at boot > > > up. i solved that problem by oiling the spindle. not recommended, i > > > know, but these old drives have exposed mechanical parts that allow > > > this kind of remedy without much risk of contaminating the inner > > > platter chamber. > > You're lucky: stiction is rarely caused by motor bearing lube problems. > Much more commonly, the head actually glues itself to the disk surface > (they coat the platters with a very thin material to reduce wear when > the heads land on them at power down). That kind of stiction has no > practical solution besides whacking of varying degrees of violence. The > 3.5" 40MB and 80MB Quantum drives failed from this problem very > frequently, and so did the Sony drives (which is why Sony got out of the > HD business soon after). I've done lots of post-mortems on these, and > the platter surface feels tacky, unlike modern drives that don't have > this problem. In one case, the head was glued on so tightly that > spinning the platter manually was amazingly hard to do (and it mangled > the head). > > --Tom
yup. i have an identical drive in an SE, and it suffers from platter sticktion. it's not too bad. if it's been off for more than a couple of days, it requires a bit of a shake to get it going. oil didn't help much for this drive. jj -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
