18 Apr
1999
18 Apr
'99
7:25 a.m.
At 20:09 16/04/99 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
IIRC, when you move that locking lever, you force the heads to one side
of the disk. If they're not already in the right spot and the disk isn't
spinning, you will scrape the heads across the disks. Not a good idea.
I was always told to lock the heads with the drive spinning (and ditto
for inserting the head clamp on an SA4000).
-tony
On a DEC RA81 how do you tell if the heads have
been locked? Or how do you
lock the heads?
OK, open the top cover (there's a lock on the front which you need to poke
with a screwdriver). Upon opening you will see a white plastic lever which
will either point to the work lock or not (writing cast into the HDA). I
seem to recall that the correct way to lock the heads is with the disk
spinning but I also seem to recall some argument to do this with the disk