CompuServe Messages

Ed: It's been a few days since you put up your message, and you may know this by now. Some Seagates had a problem with excess lubricant. The lubricant would roll up into little worms, and, upon shutdown, would settle in between the disks. When you went to boot up, the viscous drage of this excess lubricant would be too much for the drive to overcome, and it would simply sit there. This didn't happen all the time, and, in fact, after you had the machine on a while (which warmed things up), a rebout would often break the drive loose, and things would be OK again. I had this problem with a 20 meg seagate on a GVP hardcard. When I finally found out what was going on, I switched out to a 40 meg Quantum. Haven't had any problems since (GVP took the Seagate bacvk, and, I assume, made Seagate eat it.) ?|^] Ray Lewis