Fwd: Transporting a Profile Drive

Thanks guys, that's very helpful.

One last thing. Does a Profile drive do it's self-test even if it's not plugged into a Lisa? More specifically, does the seek light come on.

This one I'm buying spins up but the seek light doesn't appear. The seller doesn't have a working Lisa to test it on (death by battery acid).

Even if broken I might buy it just for asthetics but I'd be interested in you comments about the lights.

Terry (Tez)

• Forwarded message ---------- From: Jason Perkins <perkins.jason_at_email.domain.hidden> Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:45 AM Subject: Re: Transporting a Profile Drive To: lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden

Yes, you don't want to move the stepper motor with the disk not spinning. The spinning disk creates a bubble of air pressure that the read heads float on, scraping them across the disk with it off could damage them.

-Jason

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