11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
12:48 p.m.
In article <CC28F43ED4708D489ABCF68D06D7F55604243E41FC at 505DENALI.corp.vnw.com>,
Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> writes:
And that's what Richard (to whom you were
responding--I really wish you'd
include identifiers in your quoted material) was talking about. He was
here at the museum last Friday, and saw our little set piece for visitors
about storage media, which includes an RP06P disk pack that underwent a
massive head crash.
Yes, and while hard drive heads shouldn't be touching the medium, bad
things happen when they do.
And that was Al's point -- heads touching the medium do bad things in
the context of archival processes.
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