shipping floppy disk drives - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Apr 1999

On Apr 18,  4:53, Sellam Ismail wrote:
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  On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote: 
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  > If double-sided, then
 > open with no disk is fine, so long as the mechanism can't be jolted into
...
  > letting the upper head hit the lower one.  This
is pretty well true of most
...
  > 3.5" drives, and they're usually shipped
like that. 
...
  I've seen plastic shipping inserts for 3.5"
drives.  To be safe, I'd try
 to get one of these inserts for shipping the 3.5" as well.  Maybe a local
 computer store would have some. 
I've got half-a-dozen bright yellow ones, somewhere.  I once asked why Sony
stopped shipping drives with them and was told it was unnecessary; I
suspect it just saved money.  I'd suggest soft card is better -- the point
is to stop the brittle ceramic heads banging into each other and possibly
chipping.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York