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Article #22747Re: Hard Drive (wierd) Problem - Help!
From: Thomas Sporer
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:29
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:29
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In article <72815@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: >Michael Forget wrote about his Megafile making noises.. > >The second source of noise is a "ground strap" which serves to bleed >off static electricity which would otherwise build up on the spinning >platters. The place where this strap contacts the end of the axle >tends to wear, allowing the strap to vibrate and make noises. > >This is not destructive, only annoying. Not always: There are drives where this contact also is used for the motor. Together with the noise the resistance increases and finaly the motor is to "weak" th reach the correct speed. --- Thomas Sporer Tel. +49 9131 857201 Lehrstuhl Technische Elektronik Fax. +49 9131 302951 Cauerstr 9 Email spo@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de W 8520 Erlangen
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!uni-erlangen.de!lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de!spo From: spo@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Sporer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Hard Drive (wierd) Problem - Help! Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:29:37 GMT Organization: University of Erlangen Message-ID: <1ik6l1EINNckk@uni-erlangen.de> References: <1992Dec31.114129.236@janus.arc.ab.ca> <1993Jan03.160353.269@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <72815@cup.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de Lines: 18