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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Leaving Mac On
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.001257.4753@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 00:12:57 GMT
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Paul.Heller@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Heller) writes:
>  c) In designs where the read/write heads come to rest on the disk
>     surfaces, keeping the drive spinning reduces the chance that the
>     heads & media surface will do nasty things to each other while
>     at rest (or while bumped while at rest.

Worse would be if bumped while spinning, yes?  I've seen some very interesting
gouges...



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Brian Aslakson

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