*** Ideas needed for developing interactive displays....

[Pete Turnbull]

On Sep 7 2004, 22:52, ed sharpe wrote:
> Pete:  are we going to actually spin this drive up after bereakeing
the seal
> on it?  I thought  bad things would happen.......  ed

Of course you're going to spin it up.  Drives are surprisingly tough.
 I've run drives with the cover off several times.  To avoid a head
crash, avoid dust.  If you think the air might be dusty, disable the
head movement and let it spin for a while to move any remaining dust
out of the way -- winchesters have a small internal filter which
filters the air as it is dragged round by the platters.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York