Re: The broken disk drive

[musjndx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jonathan N. Deitch)]

kmccorm@access.digex.com (Kevin McCormick) writes:

>Yesterday I posted a message about how my disk drive was broken.  Well, just
>that night, I was fooling with it.... one of the things I did was to gently
>push down the top head and, wonder of wonders, it worked!  So...get this... I
>taped a nickel to the head, put the thing back together, and I've had no more
>problems.

>Does anyone have any idea what could suddenly cause this happen to the head?
>Maybe a disk went in the wrong way or something.

Sounds to me like a spring got sprung ... the nicket probably adds enough
weight to the head to force contact with the disk.  Whether it's too much
weight or the metal fiddles with the magnetic fields, you'll only find out
with time !

- Jonathan
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