On 26 Jul 2005 at 19:02, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > The 'retract and lock' of the head mechanism that I've seen is to > lift the heads several thousandths of an inch from the surface of the > platter. Platter rotation will do nothing to them. Vertical movement > of the platters could bang the heads, but generally they're > constrained to less than .001" vertical movement unless you subject > them to several Gs shock load.
I've got a 1" multi-platter drive next to me with it's guts exposed at the moment and it's got no such facility. I'll rip the top off a smaller dodgy drive tomorrow and see what I can find. I might even break out a macro lens :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
