maximum Maytag mode

storage, humour (From the US brand of washing machine) What

a washing machine or, by extension, any hard disk 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.

[Jargon File]

(1997-07-22)