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From: gmb@iclswe.icl.se (Grahame Budd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP Series II with Quantum: Drive mak
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.223148.3247@iclswe.icl.se>
Date: 20 Mar 91 22:31:48 GMT
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I don`t know if this is relevant or not but some larger disk controllers
try to avoid static build up on the unwritten portions of the disk by randomly moving accross all tracks during a given period.

If this isn`t done the static can cause head crashes. This technique was
first tried on large Fujistsu drives.