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Article #6411Re: fixing screaming bearings on Micropolis 1558 ESDI drives
From: Peter Childs
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00
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Mark Sitkowski (marks@acci.COM.AU) wrote: : Craig Dewick wrote: : > : > I have three Micropolis 1558 ESDI drives which function perfectly except : > that the bearings are shot from old age. : > ............................ : > : > Please post your thoughts, ideas, solutions, etc... : > : My only thought, is the fact that the heads fly 10 microns or so above : the medium. How much play in the bearings would reduce this to zero? : I'd junk the disks, unless you just need a large /tmp or swap space... I've got some pretty suspect Micropolis SCSI's here running concatenated and interleaved to give 600mb of news spool / web cache... If I loose it... doesn't bother me :) Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Active APANA SA Member --- Author PopWatch + Inf-HTML Email: pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au Fax: 61-8-82784742
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4671,89c483804acd959c X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,89c483804acd959c X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public X-Google-Thread: f88e1,89c483804acd959c X-Google-Attributes: gidf88e1,public From: pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs) Subject: Re: fixing screaming bearings on Micropolis 1558 ESDI drives Date: 1996/06/05 Message-ID: <4p3umu$dfd@al.imforei.apana.org.au> X-Deja-AN: 158579473 references: <4ovmkp$1dg@jedi.apana.org.au> <31B4EEE5.2781@acci.COM.AU> followup-to: aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun.hardware,alt.sys.sun organization: Imforei - another proud APANA SA site newsgroups: aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun.hardware,alt.sys.sun