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

[ed sharpe]

ok I will give it a try!!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete at dunnington.u-net.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: *** Ideas needed for developing interactive displays....


> 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.
>
> -- 
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>