29 Jan
2014
29 Jan
'14
9:13 p.m.
On 01/29/2014 12:08 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Contact in older hard drives? Fixed head drives, yes.
But older
moving head drives all unload the heads from the disk surface, and
while spinning don?t have contact either.
Just deteriorating coatings, in most cases. I've got a batch of early
Conner drives that exhibit creeping flaws every time I power them up.
Nothing to be done about it.
--Chuck