And that was
Al's point -- heads touching the medium do bad things in
the context of archival processes.
I guess I was being too clever with that post. What I trying to express
I realised from the start that your oriuginal comment didn't exculde hard
drives (does anyone honestly believe i didn't know that a head in a hard
disk flies over the disk, it doesn't toucvh it).
Richard (I think) then raised the issue of a head crash, and I mistakenly
assuemd he was commenting on a dislike of hard drives for archinving
becasue they can crash..
My comment was intyerned to point out what everyoen knwos, that your
oribialn comment doesn't exclude such drives.
-tony