Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage?

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage?
Date	2026-07-18 20:53 +0000
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:40:35 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

> 1) repeatedly hammering a floppy disk head against either the innermost
> or outermost head travel stop to attempt to break either the stepper
> motor or the metal bands connecting the stepper to the head assembly;

I had (probably still have in the bottom of some junk box) both an 
internal and external Iomega 100 MB Zip drive. iirc it was SuSE that tried 
to park the head someplace in low Earth orbit.  It was a 'I wonder if this 
still works?' experiment so I didn't spend much time trying to get it to 
work. Memory is cloudy but I think the external was PCMCIA.

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  Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-09 05:52 +0000
    Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.duckdns.org> - 2026-07-16 05:10 +0000
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-16 05:36 +0000
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-16 02:30 -0400
  Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-07-17 19:51 +0000
    Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-17 23:02 +0000
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-17 21:40 -0400
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-18 05:39 +0000
          Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-18 14:54 +0100
            Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-18 20:28 +0000
          Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-18 22:30 -0400
    Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-07-18 19:33 +1000
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-18 12:45 +0100
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-18 22:38 -0400
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-18 14:55 +0100
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-18 20:46 +0000
          Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-18 22:43 +0100
            Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-19 01:14 +0000
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-07-18 16:40 +0000
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-18 20:53 +0000

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