>> BTW I have a couple good sized boxes of ribbons, that I "hope" to soon
>> spread out on something flat a take a couple pictures of, and get rid of.
>
>Remember the MacInker (or some name to that effect)? It seems to take care
>of re-inking old ribbons quite nicely. Only problem though with ribbons is
>that I have too many I have no idea what they go to :)!
Hence my plan, spread them all out, take a decent picture, and put it on my
web site and let people look for what they need and offer me vast sums of
money for it.
From: Jerome Fine <jhfine(a)idirect.com>
>I don't see what the problem is. I have been running the Hitachi
DK515-78
>and the Hitachi DK516-15 drives now for a number of years. I admit that
Those were good drives, I ran one for years and it was not new to start
with.
The complaint with some of the drives like ST225 was like many with
ferrite
coated platters the media migrates due to heat and that centrifical
thing.
I've found with mine if I let them get good and warm first then format
them
the problem is far less pronounced to uncommon. They dont like heat.
Heat has always been the enemy of electronics and mechanicals,
especially temperature cycles.
Allison
From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red(a)bears.org>
>We won't talk about the TK50.
TK50 is the only one that hasn't messed me up. Then again most of the
TK50s found are dead or nearly so.
HPT20 travan-5, burnt me so bad... Seems the _tape_ moves so
fast it heats up... alot... then be come useless due to heat.
>I will, however, nominate any hard disk Micropolis made which was in a
>smaller form factor than 5.25" FH. Garbage.
D540, best drive ever.
>> Bulletproof drives:
>> Seagate St225,251, and 4096 interface version notwithstanding
ST225 is a good one, the 251 and 4096 were junk. The ST251
was far to hot running to survive unless cooled with great effort.
Allison
Hi,
Need help in settling argument...does disk mirroring (via hardware)
predate RAID's mirroring capability? (I'm not interested in
OS software implemented mirroring here.)
Also, are there any hardware mirror methods that one could point
to and say: this is not capable of being called any kind of RAID!
(The argument in question is over the statement that
"all hardware based mirroring is a form of RAID".)
For example, is there any "stealth hardware mirroring" mechanism,
where a drive watches the bus, and obeys writes, but nothing else?
(This would be "drive-based" mirroring, as opposed to "controller-
based mirroring") (Since RAID is controller-based, a drive-based
mirroring mechanism would seem to be clearly not any kind of RAID.)
thanks!
Stan
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.htmlwww.allegro.com/sieler
From: jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com <jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com>
>
>On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:38:33 EST Glenatacme(a)aol.com writes:
>> In fact, these are absolutely the crappiest storage devices I have
>> ever seen used on any computer.
>>
>> Any challengers for worst storage device?
>
>Yes-- The KALOK Octagon-20. The absolute worst
>MFM drive (and perhaps the worst rotating memory of
>*any* sort) ever manufactured.
most any JTS drive and the ST251(in a warm box) followed
by an old MFM Miniscribe 3.5" 21mb. These are exceeded
by the infamous SA400 (or sa400L) drives.
I also think the Zip drive (IOMEGA) might qualify.
All time winner was the 300baud FSK modem used by MITS
as a cassette interface.
Allison
From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, December 04, 2000 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: Question: Disk Mirroring preceding RAID?
>Back in '90. I tried the Novell NETWARE approach to mirroring, but was
>unable to make it work. That was due to the fact that the ADAPTEC
>controller I was using didn't really work correctly at the alternate
address
>with the driver they provided for that purpose. I quickly abandoned it,
in
>favor of the software RAID offered by NT.
I currently running NT4/server using Adaptec and two 9gb drives and it's
very well behaved with only one caveat, it is a tad slower. The NT4
software RAID also work nearly as well and has behaved itself.
The biggest fail point is many raid (scsi based) system use the same
channel for both drives and the bus is then the weak point.
However, my interest is data recovery on failure not 100% uptime.
your design goals vay vary. ;)
Allison
I saw my first Cube today!
It was in the back of a scarp yard. They had it running but
I couldn't find the mouse pointer.
The owner also said that the fan wasn't working.
There was a laser printer, dot-matrix, 2 monitors, keyboard
and mouse.
Any warnings about these machines?
What OS do they run?
Is it worth $75 cdn?
I picked up a Toshiba T1200 laptop at Goodwill yesterday. Of course, it
came with nothing, not so much as a power adapter, and nothing there to test
it with, but I couldn't resist. I picked a power adapter from Radio Shack
this morning, 12V, 1500mA, and plugged it in. There's a little red blinky
starts blinking on the top of the case just above the on/off switch, but
nothing else, no power-on, no boot, no bios screen, no nothin'. Any clue
what's going on? Is the CMOS battery dead? Is the battery charging? Any
experience, wisdom, and/or pages you'd have to share would be most
appreciated. Thanks!
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Mark Price, Library Computer Specialist
Washington County Cooperative Library Services
e-mail: markp(a)wccls.lib.or.us
voice: 503-846-3230
fax: 503-846-3220
Hey
Well, I haven't got a spare powerbrick for you because I;ve got only one. why I reply is that my Wang WLTC doesn't start up any more. I now need the WANG start tracks or bootdisks. So, if you have them and you would mail me them, I would be verry gratefull
For so far, thanks,
Evert Kuiper, The Netherlands
Hi all,
I have a Sega Gamegear with a badly scratched screen. THe scratches are
sobad that they distord the display.
Is there an easy way to polish it?
A hard way?
I tried baking soda and dremel all morning but it's still bad and I've done
some damage to the case with the dremel (yeah I should be more carful with
power tools)
Thanks
Francois
