"Jenkins, Graham K \[IBM GSA\]" <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com> writes:

|> Guys, I have a Sparcstation-20 with a rather noisy disk,
|> being used as a workstation.  And the peasant who uses
|> it, and those in his vicinity - are starting to complain.
|> 
|> One possibility for me might be to ditch the disk and turn
|> it into a diskless workstation.   But what I'd rather do is
|> leave it there, but force it shutdown when it is not actually
|> being read or written - a la Windoze.

If the disk in question is a ST1480N, replace it with something
new and quiet, say an IBM DCAS. Those ST1480N a.k.a. SUN0424 seem
to have two weak points - their spindle bearings, and that's why
many of them become noisy after some years.

	vb