Hard drive doing strange things & OD question

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From: Eskandar Ensafi
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:35

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Hi,

Occasonally, my hard drive (internal 330 MB, original cube) has failed to start  
up (no whirring sound and the machine doesn't boot).  I used the ROM monitor  
bsd command, and it said "Waiting for drive to get ready......................"
and again, it never booted.

This doesn't always happen, but it's annoying.  When I power off my cube and  
turn it on again, everything is fine and the hard drive powers up.

Sometimes, it powers up alright but I hear the whirring die down and then pick  
up again -- under these circumstaces, the machine boots but the hard drive  
noise shouldn't die and come back like that.

What could the problem be? (PLEASE REPLY BY E-MAIL -- THANK YOU!)

- Eskandar

P.S.  OD question: do all NeXT internal OD's supplied with the original cubes  
eventually die after a while, or is it possible to have an OD running without  
problems for 4 or more years?

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