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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 5.25" high Dens. drive problems
Message-ID: <kymLq1w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 6 Oct 90 02:47:55 GMT
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cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:

> My True Blue IBM AT 1.2 Meg
> drive kept returning massive random errors until I moved it from
> *under* the hard drive to *over* the hard drive.

I'm told the reason for this is the motor on the hard drive. Magnets in
close proximity to read/write magnetic heads can cause some grief. I
used to build clones, and we had a policy to never locate a floppy drive
beneath a hard drive.
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