-=> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to MATT MC_CARTHY <=-

 JH> Back to Wayne's drive -  he has now reported that it repeatedly spins
 JH> up and spins down.  

Then  the hard drive light would stay lit with no _aparrent
drive activity on at most the third spin up.

 JH> BIR from a question here or in the HDD conference
 JH> some time back,  that is a symptom which can be caused by a bad
 JH> controller board?

So far the small Seagate drive has not given me
a single lockup in a week or more while the Quantum drive
was good for hours to minutes at the end of its three
year life. Last two boots wouldn't get through scandisk
after hard shutdown forced when Windows 98 locked up solid
with the hard drive light on.
The Seagate was manufactured in 1994.
Everything appears quite normal here now and I'm counting the days,
11, until I slap a big drive in here.
 
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