whining disks

[Bob Wilber]

ivan%djomolungma at Sun.COM (Ivan Soleimanipour) writes:
>All those suggestions to fix the whining due to the disk tab ...
>
>As for pushing the tab the other way .... whew ... you're talking about
>all of my software. Admittedly ??? from Convergent claimed that some of
>the newer disks are even shipped w/o the static tab. But all my other
>buddies around here recommend i _dont'_ cut that connection, or i'll be
>eventually getting more and more hard errors until the disk will need
>to go to a hospital.

I bent the anti-static tab down 7 months ago and have had no problems with
the disk whatsoever since then.

Bob Wilber
wilber at research.att.com