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From: dhsu@crunchyfrog.Sun.COM (David Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Disk drives
Keywords: drives static death
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Date: 23 Aug 88 18:37:30 GMT
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In article <9952@netsys.COM> len@netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes:
>Running the drive without the static brush will cause you great grief
>someday soon.. I don't think the guy was that great to recommend removal
>of the static suppressor.. Ask Sun's engineers at Tech Support.

I'm not a hardware engineer, and as a consultant I'm in no position
to speak for Sun, so I won't even try.  But as a point of reference, I've
noticed that the 90Mb Wrens now stuffed into 386i's seem to be manufactured
entirely without a static brush...there's just a blob of solder where the
brush used to be.

Well, *mine* hasn't failed yet.

-dave

David Hsu
dhsu@sun.com			<standard disclaimer>

"Feh."