Re: The broken disk drive

[grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)]

In article <1ja8upINN8d2@mirror.digex.com> kmccorm@access.digex.com (Kevin McCormick) writes:
>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 like the little spring that pulls on the head got stretched out
somehow.  Darn hard little bugger to replace, too!
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