Mike McCarty wrote:
... If power fails during a write, and the drive
scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves
toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed.

But the disks almost surely don't scribble on the disk in a spiral
pattern.  (They'd detect that power is failing (voltage is dropping)
and turn off the write current before that happened.)

Daniel


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