lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (07/22/90)
In <10980@chaph.usc.edu>, bli@aludra.usc.edu (I are a college student.) writes: >In article <3387@leah.Albany.Edu> rb4572@leah.Albany.Edu (Ron Bangel) writes: >> >>I recently purchased "Battle Squadron" from Innerprise Software, Inc. It's >>one HELL of a great game, but it worries me because of a particular thing that >>it does. You see, the disk drive runs ALL THE TIME, fromthe time you boot up >>the machine until you (have to, there's no other way to get out of it) ctrl- >>amiga-amiga to stop the drive and turn the machine off. I have three questions >>about this. >> >>1. Is this harmful to the drive? Because the game supports two players, we've >>been up late playing this thing for hours... and the drive keeps running. > >I don't think so, unless the HEAD is actually R/W'ing... What's most likely >is that their disk routines at some point forgot to turn off the >drive motor.. It is nothin bad... The head will be reading at all times while this is happening. It is not significant to the question. >>2. Is this harmful to the disk itself? You mean other than wear and tear on the media and head? Of course one could always pop the disk out. -larry -- Sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+