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From: amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman - AmigaMan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Always-running 3/5" drive
Message-ID: <51878@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 02:06:03 GMT
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In article <8490@mirsa.inria.fr> colas@avahi.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes:

>I think so. On most floppy disk drives, you cannot park the head, and so the
>head is in CONTACT with the media as soon as you insert the disk.
>(at least it was on the ones I opened). So this will surely erase your disk
>and may damage, our at least put dirt on your drive head prematurely.

How do you figure that it erases a disk?  It may wear on the track that the 
head is sitting on, but just having the head on the disk doesn't erase anything

You are right about not parking the head.  No, the situation described WON'T
hurt the drive/disk - only if the head is writing at the time of ejection
(prematurely ! :-)

>moral: DOWN WITH DISK-BASED PROTECTIONS!

I agree totally!

>Colas Nahaboo, Bull Research France -- Koala Project -- GWM X11 Window Manager

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