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From: arun@tinton.ccur.com (Arun Kandappan)
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Subject: Re: Disk drives.
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Date: 31 Jul 90 17:50:20 GMT
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In <10058@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:

>In article <V%6$_&|@rpi.edu> deweeset@turing.cs.rpi.edu 
>	(Thomas DeWeese) writes:
>>...the fact that they are not
>>evacuated is the major reason why the heads are able to fly so close to the
>>disk media.
	If I remember right, the SMD disks of CDC had a head which would 
literally "take-off" and land. It was designed in such a way that any abrupt
shutdown of the disk would not cause a crash because the head glides down.

	Arun