Stephen C Woods wrote:
>   So drives do need to be ventilated, not so much wory about exploding,
> but rather subtle distortion of the case as the atmospheric preasure
> changed.

I have a '94 Caviar without any apparent holes; and as a bonus, the drive 
still works.

In contrast, ever since these holes appeared, drive failures became the norm.

>    Doe anyone rememnber that you had to let you drives acclimate to your
> machine room for a day or so before you used them.

The problem is, that's not enough; the room temperature/humidity has to be 
controlled too.  In a desktop environment, that's not really feasible.


Thanks!

--
Al

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