18 Apr
1999
18 Apr
'99
11:38 p.m.
At 19:14 18/04/99 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
Should be, yes. But what harm does it do to flip the
clamp lever with the
disk turned on? It might save the head if they're not in the right place
after spin-down as well.
I don't think there's any danger in doing this - no moving parts, no
obviously exposed high voltages....
The only thing that I can think of is that if the disk is spinning the
heads will have moved from the landing zone and the physical act of moving
the lock lever to the lock position will move the heads which could them to
crash.
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