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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Really bad disk (was Re: AMIGA questions.)
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Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 14:24:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  2 14:24:31 1987
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>Horrors, does pulling a disk out of an Amiga while the drive is on really
>kill it?  I've never seen a computer that did that, of course with the
>exception of a Mac, which won't even give the damn things back when you want
>them some times. (A friend once got a disk stuck in a Mac and got angry and
>pulled the entire machine apart to get it out.  Luckily he was an
>engineering/CS whiz and could put it back together.)
>                                    adam

	Only if the Amiga is writing to the drive at the time.  I've pulled
disks out of spinning drives all the time (when I'm sure it's not writing)
without damaging my disks.

				-Matt