From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2005-07-18 13:36:14
Hello,
* On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:49:53AM -0400 William Levak wrote:
> And no software gives an error message that says "broken", just as it
> does not give an error message that says "tilted" or "twisted", not in
> English anyway. "Not recognized" is however a common error message
> for a floppy that cannot be read.
Well, yes. But my "verkantet" was not a floppy error message, either. It
was my description of what happened to my floppy R/W head, mechanically.
Yes, of course, because my R/W head was "verkantet", the drive could not
recognize any disk. Anyway, that was not the point. I only wanted to
point out that there can be mechanical problems with the drive which can
be corrected very easily.
> "Verkanten" as described by Leo is a technical term for the mechanical
> properties of an object.
... and this is EXACTLY what I wanted to tell! "Verkanten" IS a
(more or less technical) term for a MECHANICAL PROPERTY!
Anyway, as Anders already told: I don't think this discussion does have
any benefit for any of us, thus, we might want to stop it.
Regards,
Spiro.
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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
http://www.trikaliotis.net/
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