DEC RA81 need quick answer

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sun Apr 18 23:38:38 1999

At 19:14 18/04/99 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:

>Should be, yes. But what harm does it do to flip the clamp lever with the
>disk turned on? It might save the head if they're not in the right place
>after spin-down as well.
>
>I don't think there's any danger in doing this - no moving parts, no
>obviously exposed high voltages....

The only thing that I can think of is that if the disk is spinning the
heads will have moved from the landing zone and the physical act of moving
the lock lever to the lock position will move the heads which could them to
crash.

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