Re: Apple internal HD80 sticking?

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From: Kenton A. Hoover
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1989 00:33

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In article <2247@taux01.UUCP> cyosta%taux01@nsc.nsc.COM ( Yossie Silverman ) writes:
>Same happened to me, and I am stuck in Israel and unable to take advantage
...
>was in the motor.  The motor has a "dead" spot.  If you start the machine
...
>you can make it spin up by tilting the mac (and the drive) some 90 degrees
>or so.  When the drive starts responding slugishly during operation, there

We have often opened the cases up and spun the drives out of the "dead zone"
by hand.  This syndrome seems to strike most often during demos too.  Only
a handful of machines in the office seem to have been affected.

What the mac needs is a kickstarter on the side...yeah, thats the ticket!


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| Kenton A. Hoover                                                           |
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From: shibumi@farcomp.UUCP (Kenton A. Hoover)
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Subject: Re: Apple internal HD80 sticking?
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Date: 19 Aug 89 00:33:11 GMT
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