On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 10:42  AM, gnome wrote:

> Le vendredi 17 mai 2002, à 02:35 , Ken Shmidheiser a écrit :
>
>> Due to the age of this drive, I would recommend a low-level 
>> format to map out bad sectors. Also, drives of this vintage 
>> are often nearing-- or are past-- their life cycle. I have 
>> often seen platter spindle bearing failure (usually 
>> manifesting itself by "sticktion". i.e., the drive needs a 
>> thump jar the platter spindle loose to boot.)
>
> the IIcihard drives were particulary prone to this problem.
> i worked in a graphics studio [some time back] when we had
> a rota of whose turn it was, on moday mornings after the
> weekend break, to smack the disk drives until they started.
>
> it appeared that the oil lost its viscosity severely in
> the pause, and they alle needed 'jump starts'.
>
> :-j
>

Sounds like the same problem I have with my Performa 6200/75



Pete…                          (the other one)