shipping floppy disk drives

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun Apr 18 09:01:14 1999

On Apr 18, 4:53, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> > If double-sided, then
> > open with no disk is fine, so long as the mechanism can't be jolted
into
> > letting the upper head hit the lower one. This is pretty well true of
most
> > 3.5" drives, and they're usually shipped like that.

> I've seen plastic shipping inserts for 3.5" drives. To be safe, I'd try
> to get one of these inserts for shipping the 3.5" as well. Maybe a local
> computer store would have some.

I've got half-a-dozen bright yellow ones, somewhere. I once asked why Sony
stopped shipping drives with them and was told it was unnecessary; I
suspect it just saved money. I'd suggest soft card is better -- the point
is to stop the brittle ceramic heads banging into each other and possibly
chipping.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Sun Apr 18 1999 - 09:01:14 BST

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