[TUHS] mkfs somewhere else?

cowan at ccil.org cowan at ccil.org
Fri Feb 13 01:50:47 AEST 2015


Dave Horsfall:

> Not just that, but the aerodynamics have been screwed up.  The heads will
> no longer "float" on an air-cushion; I believe the gap is the traditional
> human hair width, if that.

Much larger.  I remember seeing a scale drawing that showed the gap
as half an inch or so, with a dust particle the size of a freaking
mountain and a human hair that looked like a Tipler cylinder.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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