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Article #8614Re: Quantum ROM fix report
From: Rodney Ricks
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 17:55
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 17:55
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In article <27801@dhw68k.cts.com< thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) writes: <In article <20837@mimsy.umd.edu> spector@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Lee Spector) writes: <>The NEW problem (post "fix") is a rattling sound that continues for a long <>time - usually until the user explicitly causes a subsequent read/write to <>the disk. <> ... When this rattling sound is occurring <>there IS noticable slowdown of drive accesses. < < Oddly enough, the problem does seem to have "fixed itself" after approx. <1 month of hyperactive, rattling, performance-degrading accesses on my IIcx. Is that a month of high usage, or a month of only occasional use? <When I first got the drive (with the new ROM), the performance was horrible. <Now that the drive has been "broken in," the hyper-access problem seems to <have gone away. Possibly it takes a while for the lubricant to spread evenly, <or achieve some kind of magic viscosity level? I wonder if it would be a good idea for users who just got the fix to just let the system sit for a few days and "exercise" itself to get rid of the performance problem? <-ken Rodney -- "We may have come over here in different ships, but we're all in the same boat now." -- Jesse Jackson Rodney Ricks, Morehouse College
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!auc!rar From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Quantum ROM fix report Summary: How about just leavaing the system on for a few days? Message-ID: <32331@auc.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 89 17:55:29 GMT References: <14618@well.UUCP> <9323@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <20837@mimsy.umd.edu> <27801@dhw68k.cts.com> Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) Organization: Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga. Lines: 30