Mario Mendes Jr. wrote:
> This is (or was, since it's been a while since I ran into this) a problem
> with all kinds of drives, not just laptop ones, that are kept on for
> extended periods of time such as in servers or desktops with the power
> management features turned off.  I've worked with servers that were on for
> periods of over a year and when turned off for maintenace I had to pull
> out the drive and "carefully" smite them on the sides to get the heads
> untuck.....

.............
> -Mario

Indeed, I have a stack of IBM 2-4gig SCSIs that came from servers.
Everyone needs a smack upside the head to spin up.
D
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