dead supra drives

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From: Leonard Harris
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1988 19:23

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A while back there was a big discussion on how the Supra drive
ran very hot while the Atari had disk ran cooler and how this really
made no difference in the long run. Well....
Yesterday my Supra drive died.  No, it is not the power supply but
the miniscribe drive inside is trashed.  When i turn it on, one hears
a metallic grinding noise.  It was not moved, banged, etc - just used
last week in 90+F degree weather.  
After talking to a Supra distributor, I found out this is quite common.
When the drive runs hot it expands and may trash data that has been written
before.  What happened to me is more extreme - presumably the head expanded, or
a balancing counterweight expanded and fell off, trashing the mechanism.
At least my thesis was backed up on floppies.
/leonard

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Date: Sun, 24-Jul-88 15:23:17 EDT
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