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In article <20167@mimsy.UUCP> spector@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Lee Spector) writes:
>I had the infamous Quantum/Apple startup problems with my IIcx & 80 Meg
> [...]
>
>Causing the disk to access always causes a quiet grinding sound (this is
>normal, I suppose) but now the sound will sometimes continue to sound
>continuously after an access.  For example, if I just play around in the
>finder opening folders, sooner or later I will open a folder and have the
>grinding sound continue (but the light does not continue to flash).  No
>matter how long I wait it'll just keep grinding away.  If I keep opening
>folders, the sound will generally stop at one of the subsequent accesses.

  My IIcx/Apple-Quantum 80 is 2 weeks old. Just yesterday, it started
displaying this "new" behavior. So far, I can't reproduce it with any
regularity (the first time it occurred, I was running ResEdit 1.2 under
MultiFinder, which made it doubly scary.) What seems to be happening is
that the drive will start to seek normally, read the required block(s), 
and then continue accessing the disk INDEFINTELY until a fresh request
for info is made. Each time, I was able to stop the frenzied seeking by
doing something requiring a fresh disk access (once, I opened up a folder;
another time, I launched an application, etc.)  The infinite accesses
seem to be generated by the drive itself, and not by the driver or other
software (no v***s that I could find!)

 Now, ever since I got the drive, it has done a 'calibration' seek at
roughly 5 minute intervals, each access lasting no more than a second.
I'm told this is normal behavior. But... could a request from the driver
occurring at exactly the same time as the periodic seek cause this "infinite
access"? Or is it somehow related to the new PROM? (I haven't had any
startup problems [yet], so perhaps recent Quantums are already "fixed"?)

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