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farming n.
[Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads
of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the
magnetic media. Associated with a crash. Typically used as
follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard
drive hasn't gone farming again." No longer common; modern
drives automatically park their heads in a safe zone on
power-down, so it takes a real mechanical problem to induce this.
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