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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Lot's of questions
Message-ID: <2815@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 22:19:10 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.2815
Posted: Sat Jan  3 22:19:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Jan-87 22:01:51 EST
References: <9073FIB@PSUVM> <2750@osu-eddie.UUCP> <434@catnip.UUCP> <551@brl-sem.ARPA>
Reply-To: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Organization: InfoSolv Corporation; Columbus, OH. (guest Ohio State U.)
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Summary:


In <551@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes:
>In article <434@catnip.UUCP>, ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder) writes:
>> The reason that Bernoulli boxes can't suffer from head crashes is because
>> the r/w head always contacts the media, just like a floppy disk.
>Wrong, the bernoulli box is immune from head crashes because it the heads
>are designed to be able to hit the media, but they are not always in contact
>with the media.  They achieve their faster turning rates over floppies by
>forcing air under the heads.

Wrong, the Bernoulli Box is immune from head crashes because the media
is designed to be in contact with the head (like a floppy).  Also, when
the drive sustains a shock, the media falls away from the head, because
the air flow that pushes the media against the head gets interrupted.


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