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uncal@talgras.UUCP (Al Amet) writes:

>Actually you never want the tape to touch the head with any of them.  The
>object is to have just a few molecules of air between the head and the tape.
>I use to have a chart that showed objects in reference to a 1/4" cartridge
>head.  A human fingerprint was several times the thickness of the distance
>between the head and the tape.  Head design is an art.  The object is to
>keep the tape wrapped around the head as close as possible without it
>touching.

	All tape drives have their heads in contact with the media.
The chart that you have describes disk heads, which do float on a 
thin layer of air.   The only flexible media system that I am aware of 
that does use floating heads is the Bernouli drive.   In tape drives 
the head does wear because of the media contact.   Hard disk
heads do not wear while the drive is running.
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