10 Apr
2007
10 Apr
'07
5:55 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Quite probably, but I constructed my clean box to work on stuff other
than just hard disks.
Well, I've seen how much dust a car air filter lets through, and I won't
use one on my car anymore. 8-/
Do the heads on older drives hover closer or farther from the data
surface than on newer drives?
Peace... Sridhar
Fourth,
it's a good idea to use an inert gas supply. For reasons of
What's wrong with filtered air? It's what was used in the demountable
minicomputer hard disks, and I would think it would be suitable for the
sort of winchester drive we're discussing here. availability
and price, the best choice might be nitrogen. Bottled
nitrogen won't be completely clean, so an air filter is probably a good
idea. Don't use a paper one, obviously. I use a glass allergen filter.
Again, why not? Every demountable hard drive I've ever worked on has used
a coated paper element air filter. The service manual for at least one
hard dirve (I have the manual, not the drive, I think it was the drive
badged as the RK01) has a hadwritten note in it giving the make/model of
a car, the air filter of which would work in said drive. And I am told A
Citroen something-or-other air filter can be modified to fit an RL drive.