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.
[glossary]