HDD died in a spectacular way - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 May 1998

On May 3, 23:38, Tony Duell wrote:
...
  Tim wrote:
  Same goes for the RL01/RL02 (which will spin
about 3000 RPM instead
 of nominal if you convince them to spin up without a pack). 
 Yes, but with no pack there's no platter to break up :-)

 I'm not going to try it, but what does an RL0x do if you get it to
 overspeed with a pack in place, I wonder? Probably not a lot. 
Not much, it just goes rather faster than normal.  I've seen it happen when
a servo circuit failed (actually, a field servoid had removed a vital
component from a drive that he thought wouldn't be used again).

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York