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- From: rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dick Harrigill)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: Help with RODIME Drive!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1279@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 17:07:47 GMT
- References: <9212221912.AA05657@flip.SP.Paramax.COM> <1992Dec23.125926.6549@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle
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- In article <1992Dec23.125926.6549@edsi.plexus.COM> chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi) writes:
- >I would have to disagree about the shock idea from a personal basis.
- >While installing a 400T machine I was taking it off the shipping doc.
- >It started out vertical on the hand truck, but when I stopped moving it
- >fell flat on its side with a very loud slam. Both internal drives were
- >fine and are still going a year later.
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- Most newer disks have an automatic locking mechanism when powered off
- (thus you need not park heads any longer). They can withstand a pretty
- good shock. The real test is bumping/moving the machine while the drive
- is spinning.
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