17 Sep
2011
17 Sep
'11
12:54 p.m.
Rob Jarratt wrote:
You just hope the drive keeps working for long enough to do that!
Not in a cleanroom. I have opened up RD53s and
got them working again.
Hoping (perhaps optimistically) to do the same with this RD54.
If you do, and there are any valuable bits on it, copy them off
immediately. I've seen people do that and have head crashes very soon
afterward. Given how low the flying height of the heads is, it would be amazing to NOT have a head crash at some point
thereafter. IIRC, the
flying height was about five microns back in those days, which was less
than the size of a lot of the particulate matter in normal room air.
(In recent drives it can be less than 5 nm.)
One hundredth of the wavelength of visible light? I am impressed -- very!
-tony