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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:20:05 +0200
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Subject: Gainful use of unreliable IBM DTLA disk...
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One of my test-disks, one of the cursed DTLA's started acting up and got
moved down a notch in my test-hierarchy.

I decided to examine it a bit closer and found out that the lid has
a wedge shaped hole which makes it perfect for studying disksort()
in action.

Under the big white label is a small metal-sticker covering the
hole, simply replace that with transparent tape:

	http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/watch_disk.png

Poul-Henning

PS: Yes, you would be able to put one or two LEDs inside the disk if you
wanted to do extreme case-modding :-)

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
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