PR> I wouldn't want to damage my 5MB Shugart 504, but I have a 40MB
 PR> Quantum Q540 MFM FH that won't seek (servo platter tracks out of
 PR> spec?).
 MM> Not likely, more likely that the head latch is failing to
 MM> release the heads due to some obscure internal failure.

I used to know someone who repaired them, and he said it was usually
servo track problems, and he couldn't fix that.

 PR> ... Know how to boil a frog?   Heard about global warming?
 MM> Reminds me...  Watching undersea exploration programs on
 MM> the tube, I often see large schools of shrimp, crabs, and
 MM> other sealife swarming around those 'black smokers' on the
 MM> bottom of the oceans.  Since the water temperature being
 MM> spewed out is around 300 to 500 degrees C, how WOULD
 MM> someone go about 'cooking' those shrimp?

The operative word is "around".  Water is an exceptionally good heat
conductor, and hot water rises.  Where they live, even though it seems
close, is around the BOTTOM of the chimneys where temperatures aren't so
high.  There are however certain thermophilic archae-bacteria that can
survive at temperatures above 100C, as around hot water vents in
Yellowstone.

p.s. Since those waters are sulfur rich, and sulfur plays an important
role as an oxidizer in the metal-digesting bacteria, I wouldn't even
want to try eating those crabs.

... Cat (KAT') n. Dog with an attitude problem
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