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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
maximum Maytag mode
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
n. What a washing machine or, by extension, any disk drive is in when it's
being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an
unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks
becoming walking drives. In 1999 it's been some years since hard disks were
large enough to do this, but the same phenomenon has recently been reported
with 24X CD-ROM drives.