Jules wrote:
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:22:27 +0100, Folkert Rienstra wrote:

Rotflol. You a rocket scientist, right?

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On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:30:31 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:
kip wrote

Which clean room will you be using ?

He's gunna need a hell of a lot more than a clean room.

Actually, it's an interesting experiment (and one I'd expect to
fail), but:

1) Drives will usually run for anything between a few hours to a
few days

Ah, you do this all the time.

No, usually once a month or so in order to recover data from drives
with sealed spindle motors that are suffering from stiction or bearing
problems. I just tend to leave them running once I've got everything
off just out of curiousity to see how long they'll last before they
go crunch.

2) I'm not sure how much of an issue radial alignment is - won't
modern drives handle the calibration automatically during startup?

Ah yeah, those little servo motors adjusting them mechanically at
startup.

Umm, what servo motors? Long time since any hard disk used them...

You're thinking of stepper motors.

Ahh, gotta love the trolls...