19 Apr
1999
19 Apr
'99
9:03 p.m.
At 20:01 19/04/99 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
[Locking heads on an RA81, etc]
Yes but in a normal seek the head is moved electomechanically. I think the
head lock mechanism for the RA81 is totally mechanical and there is no
guarantee that it will be as "smooth" as a normal seek.
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The only thing that I can think of is that if the
disk is spinning the
heads will have moved from the landing zone and the physical act of moving
the lock lever to the lock position will move the heads which could them to
crash.
Moving the heads with the disk spinning is conventionally called a
'seek', and doesn't normally cause a headcrash. Moving the heads with the
disk stationary is much more likely to do damage.