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From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk questions
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Date: 11 Dec 87 22:41:00 GMT
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Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!berger    Dec 11 16:41:00 1987


Nothing wrong with embedded servo drives:  Some disk controllers can't
handle them properly, and you'd better be awfully sure not to use a
'scope probe on the head for the control surface.  It doesn't take
much current to erase the track marks!

			Mike Berger
			Center for Advanced Study
			University of Illinois 

			berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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