5 Nov
2010
5 Nov
'10
3:14 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
It is, indeed. I suspect ST412s are more common than ST406s though That
is not one mf my typos. There is an ST406, it's a single-platter, 2 head
thing, otherwise the same as the ST412. There's also an ST419, which is
the 3 platter 6 head version. The last 2 digits seem to give the
unfrmatted capacity in Mbytes.
Eh? RLL is a date encoding scheme, ST412 is a
de-facto stadnard for the
signals on the drive interface connectors. They are not the same thing at
all.
ST412 is ALSO a drive that the "de-facto standard" is named after.
They seem to be getting harder to find. ST412-type of interface) is that in general the
encoding system only
matters to the user on a 'raw' interface,
and, I'd say that the DiscFerret certainly meets MY definitions of a "raw"
interface.
From what I've heard [1], the diskferet can handle
that sort of thing, so
it could be a raw interfce. On the other hand, with a right
programming
it could als handle a seaprated clock/data type of interface I think.
[1] I will admit I've not looked at the design yet. Mainly because I have
no way of using one. I fully appreciate that with the amount of data that
has to be transfered back to the host machine, you need a fast modern
interface like USB. But I don't hava suitable host.
-tony