whining disks

[daniel.r.levy]

In article <102580 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, ivan%djomolungma at Sun.COM (Ivan Soleimanipour) writes:
< All those suggestions to fix the whining due to the disk tab ...
< First, if you pushed the tab "up" (towards the spindle) you'll be back
< there in less than two months opening the guts of your machine and
< pushing it in again. 

< As for pushing the tab the other way .... whew ... you're talking about
< all of my software.

Just speculating ... could something else, less likely to make rubbing noises
(like a piece of copper braid) be soldered to the tab to be used as the contact
surface?
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