18 Apr
1999
18 Apr
'99
6:22 a.m.
On Apr 17, 22:32, Bill Yakowenko wrote:
Subject: shipping floppy disk drives
I'll be shipping a few floppy disk drives soon, and want to minimize
the shipping damage to them. So, is it better to ship them with the
drive door open or closed? And with or without a floppy inserted?
If they're single-sided, it doesn't matter much. If double-sided, then
open with no disk is fine, so long as the mechanism can't be jolted into
letting the upper head hit the lower one. This is pretty well true of most
3.5" drives, and they're usually shipped like that. On some 5.25" drives,
though, the door or lever could be moved, so inserting a floppy and closing
the door may be better. I'd suggest putting it in back-to-front (or use a
sheet of thick card with a hole in the middle) to improve the cushioning
effect.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York