In , on 09/02/04 
   at 03:31 PM, Stephan Bucher  typed:

>I have had disks that did not start a couple of times, and I always got 
>them going again by giving them a quick spin with my hands so that the 
>disc would make a small rotation due to its inertia.

My first hard disk - Seagate 20 meg or something like that - wouldn't
start up at power on.  Nudging the spindle on the underside got it going.

I got a lot of flak for having a drive that needed a rope start!
 
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