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Boy, now here is an example of what kind of information we have access to on
this list. Now that Ernest mentions it, yeah, I recall that the heads of
the hard disk float on a cushion of air - but, I would never have thought to
associate altitude with hard drive crashes! Thanks Ernest.
Ed
Ed Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 5:48 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Into the blue again :-)
Haywire wrote:
> Message Today we flew for 6.3 hrs and everything was great again. We
> calibrated a few items including the electronic governor for the IVO
prop.
> What a difference that makes. Also calibrated the PSS AOA and the Dynon
AOA
> and they each are phenomenal tools. The engine is running great with no
> major issues at all. I do have a little tweaking to do on the low MAP
table,
> but nothing urgent. Then only problem that I had today was that my Sony
Vaio
> laptop doesn't seem to like high altitude. I have a small Vaio and have
> built a place for it to mount easily and use it to display Jeppenson's
> FlightMap in-flight GPS program. It works great until 10,300' where it
would
> then display the blue screen and then reboot. After the 4th time it
refused
> to reboot again so now I'm forced to use the system recovery disc and
wipe
> the disc clean. I hate to think about all the files that I said I would
> back-up soon... :-(. My old laptop still works fine(using it now) so
maybe
> I'll try it tomorrow.
All hard drives have a spinning platter with a read/write head riding a
cushion of air just above it. Go to 10,300' and there isn't much of a
cushion left. The head will fall into the platter turning at 7500 or
10000 rpm. I think you'll be lucky if the drive ever works again.
-- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/
"Ignorance is mankinds normal state,
alleviated by information and experience."
Veeduber
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