Some neat info about 70s hard drive contaminants.
From the DEC RK05 disk drive maintenance manual (DEC-00-HRK05-C-D)
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Some neat info about 70s hard drive contaminants.
From the DEC RK05 disk drive maintenance manual (DEC-00-HRK05-C-D)
@altomare on modern sealed drives, the firmware still has to deal with imperfectly flat disks. It uses head temperature to build a map of microscopically small bumps and distortions, and adjusts the fly-height dynamically to float above them.
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