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From: utzoohenry
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1982 15:38
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1982 15:38
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Wern tells me he has cautioned users before about a common abuse of the floppy drives: letting the doors slam open. I know it's tempting to just pull up the catch and let the door snap down, but DON'T DO IT. The doors are linked to the head mechanism, and too much of this abuse breaks it. Wern is fairly sure that this is what knocked out the drive that went bad a few days ago. It's a real hassle to fix, too. Penalty for slamming the drive doors is two weeks using RT11 instead of Unix. And from floppies, too.
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