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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 10-Sep-92 Re: Hard Drive
problems (?) Glenn Reid@rightbrain.co (1001)

>I have ear plugs in my ears as I type this.  The drive on my NeXTstation
>has been sounding like brake pads on metal for many weeks, and it's driving
>me nuts.  I'm about to have it serviced, except that I don't want to let
>go of my machine long enough to do whatever it takes to fix it :-(  It's
>a 400Mb drive, for what it's worth.

It's very likely that the bearings inside the drive are going.  (The
bearings are one of the primary causes of hard drive failure.)  It's
likely that you'll need to replace the drive soon; I don't think that a
computer repair store would even try to fix it.  If you're under
warrenty, the drive manufacturer will probably replace the drive rather
than attempting repair.

I'd also suggest that you start being enthusiastic about doing system
dumps.  Your disk drive is in the "armed and dangerous" category.

Good luck,

-Chuck

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