{WAS} Re: anyone ... {is} 300mb head crashes, and Western Dynex acquired

I hate to be a poop, but I would imagine that if you loaded and tried to run this, you'ed end up with slag. I had several 300's and they are very sensitive to contamination. If you have a pack inspection and cleaning system or portable version, and the cleaning materials, you probably could get a pack up to shape not to crash all the heads. I would want a lot of heads available just in case of disaster too, as it was not if but when as to the problem of crashes. these are wonderful machines to have, but I am torn about how to use them given the fact that they are like fine wristwatches, which have to work perfectly at 1700 rpm or so, and do that indefinitely. I probably had some HEPA filters, but doubt they have survived my moves, sad to say. I am doing a massive move right now and will hold on to what I have and post the numbers if anyone is interested. I did find and purchase a western dynex 5 over 5 model 6000, which I just got posession of today from a DRMO auction. They are 4 heads instead of 10 or 20, and the media is much easier (and less of it) to clean. Hopefully it will be functional to run on a Microdata system I have in stock, looking for a drive to run on it. Thanks to whoever posted the recent note about a DRMO auction as I found this drive while surfing the auctions around that posting. Jim Keys wrote: