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In article <1992Sep2.180722.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Sep2.175234.6972@nntp.uoregon.edu>, cdelay@inferno.uoregon.edu
>> (Christian De Lay) writes:
>>> I'm getting some awfully weird noises from my (406MB) hard drive in my 9  
>>> month old NeXTstation mono.  Occasionally the drive will make a high pitch  
>>> whining sound (which sounds similar to a skill saw "powering down") for no  
>>> apparent reason.  Now, I've had this machine long enough to know that this  
>>> probably isn't a normal sound for the beast to be making.
>>> 
>>> What I want to know is this: Has anyone else experienced this problem?  Are  
>>> there any known problems with NeXT's hard drives?
>>	I have a mono NeXTstation also with the 400 MB drive and I have heard a
>>	similar sound a couple of times.  Couldn't swear it's the drive,
>>	though.  Might be a fan.
>>

It's the drive.  In the beginning of its life, the Seagate 1480 (the 400 MB
drive) had a lot of such reports.  People that complained loudly had their
drives replaced.  As time went on, reports got fewer and fewer.  I had
that happen on one of my machines.  It happened 4 or 5 times.  One time
it went on for minutes so I shut the machine down, got a drink (a stiff one,
I had done enough under the covers that the warranty wasn't going to do me
any good) and started it up again.  I only heard that sound once more, and
that was months ago.  

If it's really annoying get the drive swapped, but odds are it will happen
very infrequently, and not do any harm.



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