[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Darcy Baston]

I remember going around with a floppy disk with park.com on it to "secure" drive heads before shipping computers.

My folks got a 10MB drive in 1986. By 1993 it was so gummy inside it would get stuck and the head couldn't move inward again. The ol' cliche of hitting a computer to make it work, WORKED. They had computer trouble one day and called me up saying they invited a friend's kid over to fix it, and he couldn't. He called me up rambling off config.sys this, command.com that, format /s this, and I said, "dude...hit the computer". He left promptly, a little confused. :)

Darcy
 
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 02:43PM, David Champion <dave@visionary.com> wrote:

>I loved the "beep-ity beep beep" sound the old 5.25" Seagate MFM/RLL 
>drives made. IIRC that was because the read head was controlled by what 
>was basically a modified speaker voice coil, instead of a conventional 
>stepper motor.
>
>p.s. Is this thread dead yet?
>
>-dc