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From: bli@aludra.usc.edu (I are a college student.)
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Subject: Re: Always-running 3/5" drive
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In article <3387@leah.Albany.Edu> rb4572@leah.Albany.Edu (Ron Bangel) writes:
>
>I recently purchased "Battle Squadron" from Innerprise Software, Inc.  It's
>one HELL of a great game, but it worries me because of a particular thing that
>it does.  You see, the disk drive runs ALL THE TIME, fromthe time you boot up
>the machine until you (have to, there's no other way to get out of it) ctrl-
>amiga-amiga to stop the drive and turn the machine off.  I have three questions
>about this.
>
>1. Is this harmful to the drive?  Because the game supports two players, we've
>been up late playing this thing for hours... and the drive keeps running.

I don't think so, unless the HEAD is actually R/W'ing... What's most likely
is that their disk routines at some point forgot to turn off the 
drive motor.. It is nothin bad...

>2. Is this harmful to the disk itself?

Again, no, unless you hear the head moving (or grinding).. if it is just
the motor (sounds like a quiet fan), ignore it... 

Question 3 - -deleted, 'cus I had nothing to answer...
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