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Housings and devices for disk drives
Andrew William Atkins,Stephen Andrew Bailey,David Ronald Bain Farquhar,David John Orriss,Kevin Richardson +4 more
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A disk drive test apparatus (1) has a plurality of bays (4) each for receiving a respective disk drive to be tested as discussed by the authors, each of the test cards is either an environment test card or an interface test card.Abstract:
A disk drive test apparatus (1) has a plurality of bays (4) each for receiving a respective disk drive to be tested. A plurality of card slots (6) are provided each for receiving a test card (7, 8) via which a disk drive can be tested. Each of the test cards is either an environment test card (7) or an interface test card (8). The card slots (6) and the test cards (7, 8) are arranged such that each card slot (6) can selectively receive an environment test card (7) or an interface test card (8). Other arrangements for disk drive test apparatus or disk drive mounting apparatus are disclosed.read more
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