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From: psfales@ihlpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Shipping a 3b/2
Message-ID: <1743@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 12-May-87 00:03:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpe.1743
Posted: Tue May 12 00:03:55 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 14-May-87 04:47:46 EDT
References: <1548@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 25
Keywords: Parking Heads
Summary: Head lock

In article <1548@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, rcj1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Guess, again turkey) writes:
> 
> 	We will be shipping a 3B/2 next week via UPS I think.
> 

32 Meg disks (and maybe others??) have a mechanical head lock.  On
the back of the drive (the end with the connectors), there is a small
piece of metal that looks some thing like

-----------
        O |
-----------

(The "O" indicates a hole.)  It is approximately 1/4" wide and 1/16"
thick.  If it is pulled out from the drive about 1/2" the heads are
mechanically locked in a safe position.  This is very important.
We were recently shipped a 3B2/400 with two disks.  The heads
were not locked and the package was dropped during shipment.  Both
disks were destroyed.

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