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1.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   farming
      <jargon> (From Adelaide University, Australia) What the
      heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little
      furrows in the magnetic media during a head crash.
      Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just
      crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone farming again."
      [Jargon File]
      (2001-03-26)