29 Sep 2003, 17:45, Paul Rogers (1:105/360), wrote to Matt Mc_Carthy:

Hi Paul.

 MM>> it's main function.  I connect an ancient 10Meg Seagate
 MM>> full height HD that runs and eats amps (but fails to seek),

 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?).

Not likely, more likely that the head latch is failing to release the heads
due to some obscure internal failure.

 PR> ... Know how to boil a frog?   Heard about global warming?

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


     Good luck...  M.

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