On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 02:31 AM, Scott Holder wrote:
> fine for years on a 160 meg drive... that I had to knock on to get it to
> spin up. Yes, I actually had to pop the top and knock on the drive for
> it
> to spin up. Otherwise it just ticked ;) It did finally die, but it
> lasted
> for a couple or three years. I made sure not to keep anything critical
> on it :)
As if we needed any further evidence that Compaq are scum, but
apparently their service engineers used to chuck dead hard disks off of
the desk before declaring them truly dead. This often freed the heads on
suck drive (sadly it didn't work on my Micropolis drive - it died, but
it was dead anyway) and would last a few months until it's warranty
expired and if it died after that, of course, the customer paid for a
replacement. What a bunch of evil so-and-sos....
I have a couple of 540LPS drives that take a few clicks (rather than the
normal one click then init.) to get going. They work fine but it's a bit
disturbing all the same. They seem to be especially bad on their side -
gravity obviously acting against the heads. I have 2 identical 540LPS
drives and one is WAY louder, weird as their serial numbers are not a
million miles apart, both 1994 AFIAK (based on the fact one was in a
1994 840av and the other has a broadly similar s/n).
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