13 Nov
1998
13 Nov
'98
3:13 p.m.
Anyway, my expensive 3Com server began to
'whistle' at about
10kHtz one day, and by the next morning it was screeching and
warbling and quite obviously dying quickly. While it *was* backed up
(the entire sales and marketing division was running in those 300
MBytes) I still had throughput goals to achieve, so I got the 3Com
tech-rep out. By the time he arrived people were coming in my office
to see what that awful noise was... I couldn't believe it was still
*spinning*... let alone reading and writing.
"Yup." He said. "No problem.."
It was the absolute filter in the top cover of the
drive. They
offered to fix it... not under warranty!!! because it was not
mis-performing... just annoying the hell out of all and sundry.
:)
Reminds me of the good old BASF 13 MB hard disk drive. Around
1983 BASF, successfull in producing floppies also tried to get
a foot into the strong climbing hard disk market. So, they
designed a nice 5,25" half height 13 MB drive (funny sidefact:
the heady where moved thru a metal band mechanism, able to be
turned buy a plastic wheel from the outside - so you could
just positionate the head by hand .... or atatch a paper clip
to get a head position meter :). These drives had a small
spring atatched to the spindle (from outside - the turning
end of the spindle could be touched) for grounding. And now
and then this spring starts to give a high sound. Official
solution: a drop of oil ... So, next time when you give your
car new oil, save some for your vintage hard drive :)
Gruss
hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK