At 1:00 PM -0500 1/5/2009, Charles Davis wrote: >On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Dan wrote: > > At 12:28 PM -0500 1/5/2009, Charles Davis wrote: >>> I think the usual failure mode these days, is a surface deformity of >>> some sort. >> >> Surface deformities are mapped out during factory low-level >> formatting. > >Yeah, those 'scratches that didn't polish out, 'holidays' in the plating, etc.
LOL Years ago, we broke apart some crashed disk packs - the big ones - and made mobiles of them. The separator rings made nice clappers. We discovered that if you scraped a bit of the magnetic material off the platters, you could change their tone. My college roomies spent a lot of time "tuning" them. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
