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Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Bell (News)
> > I wanted to replace my old 'drawer' HD drive because it sometimes
> > makes a whirring sound when switched on - as if it's struggling to
> > get turning.  I suspected a dirty contact reducing the voltage, but
> > was wrong - a full 5.00 and 12.05 volts at the business end, under
> > load. And my new WD drive sometimes makes exactly the same
> > whirring noise and the voltages are still ok.

> As I reckon there is less than 1% chance that the new WD drive is
> RiscPC motherboard compatible the solution is another drive.

> I've just remembered another solution that increases the compatiblity
> possibility to about 90%
> Use an IDEFS interface: Unipod or S/H Simtec IDEFS

> But again some modern drives do not to work with IDEFS interfaces.

> Chris Evans

Thanks for your thoughts, Chris.  I'm going away soon (for a 3 month
sponsored cycle ride!) but will contact you for a more suitable drive
when I return.

In the meantime - any thoughts on the whirring that sounds like the
motor is failing to get up to speed?  I can sometimes stop it with a
thump, after which it behaves impecably.  The strange thing is my new
WD drive did the same thing once suggesting, to me, a poor plug/socket
contact causing a reduced voltage under load - but I've measured the
voltages when this happens and they're what they're supposed to be.

Chris Bell.

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HForm error "Chris Bell (News)" <news@highpath.net> - 2012-07-09 15:34 +0100
  Re: HForm error Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-07-09 17:48 +0100
    Re: HForm error "Chris Bell (News)" <news@highpath.net> - 2012-07-09 19:50 +0100
      Re: HForm error SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> - 2012-07-09 21:01 +0100
      Re: HForm error "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-07-10 05:52 +0000
      Re: HForm error Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-07-10 12:43 +0100
        Re: HForm error "Chris Bell (News)" <news@highpath.net> - 2012-07-10 13:37 +0100
          Re: HForm error Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-07-11 10:10 +0100
            Re: HForm error "Chris Bell (News)" <news@highpath.net> - 2012-07-11 17:30 +0100
              Re: HForm error Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-07-12 15:41 +0100
                HForm error - now OT "Chris Bell (News)" <news@highpath.net> - 2012-07-13 18:17 +0100
            Re: HForm error Andrew Wickham <ajw99uk@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-26 05:17 -0700
              Re: HForm error Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-07-27 13:13 +0100
  Re: HForm error "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-07-09 17:26 +0000
    HForm error Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-07-10 06:25 +0100
      Re: HForm error Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-07-10 12:49 +0100

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