24 Jul
2011
24 Jul
'11
11:47 p.m.
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:17:52 -0700
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
Throw it away.
No. I'll reuse it as
decoration for my office at work. Will look nice
alongside that 9 track tape on the wall. I already have a platter from
a 14" disk with head crashes hanging there. Now my colleagues can see
how such platters where packed. :-)
It is not worth messing with a platter that has visble
damage.
OK.
Even one tar-looking smudge can crash the heads again.
There is a nice picture in the manual. It shows different types of dirt
in relation to the flying height of the heads...
If there are no scratches on the ceramic after you
clean them, the heads will
probably be OK. 2.5 mb heads are pretty tough.
I'll see. It will take some time
until I get back to the drive due to
the replacements needed.
There should be no funny little noises as the heads
move across the surface.
Obviously. No metal-cutting data storage... ;-)
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