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Article #40764Re: should hard drives be left running 24 hrs/day?
From: Earle R. Horton
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1989 22:38
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1989 22:38
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In article <28835@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
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>I have always left mine on _all_ the time, but then again I'm not the one
>who has to pay for repairs (although I have not had any problems). I have
>seen a lot of drives "lock" and not spin up after having been off for a
>few hours or days.
I have an old Computer Memories drive in an Intel 286-310 which
only gets occasional use. Part of starting up this system after not
using it for a while is to remove the hard drive, reach into the case
with a Popsicle stick, and nudge the flywheel a bit to free it so the
disk motor can spin up. If you have occasion to try this trick, do it
with the power OFF.
Earle R. Horton
Graduate Student. Programmer. God to my cats.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!earleh From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: should hard drives be left running 24 hrs/day? Message-ID: <13032@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 12 Apr 89 22:38:44 GMT References: <1279@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <28835@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Organization: Thayer School of Engineering Lines: 18