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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:37:02 -0400
From: Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: obsolete code must die
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In-Reply-To: <200106140141.f5E1fFL3012794@typhaon.pacific.net.au>; from david_luyer@pacific.net.au on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:41:15AM +1000
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i have a corvus 20meg drive and a xebec 10meg that both still spin up. those
are from mid to late 80s. i have seagate hawks from '94 that still work, but
quantums from the same period are all dead. the difference is that newer
drives have much tighter tolerances and are much more sensitive to dust. it
varies from drive to drive, of course.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:41:15AM +1000, David Luyer wrote:
> Even old Eagle drives from 1988 still spin up... given you have to flick the
> starter switch to spin them up half a dozen times, but they still work...
> seems they don't make disk drives like they used to.

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Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
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