15 Sep
2010
15 Sep
'10
2:03 p.m.
On 9/15/10, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I have experience with RK05s too (and used to own a Diablo 30/RK03
until it got coated in a flood, but that's another story) and I agree
they are quite robust.
Perhaps they had issues with the retraction batteries or with
dirty/missing filters?
-ethan
Probably not too useful a remark, but I remember from years ago when we
had
some Xerox Altos at the Stanford computer science department that the disk
drives were very prone to head crashes. We were instructed to never
attempt
I am suprised... These drives are similar technology and bit density to
the DEC RK05, and presumably have a similar head flying height. My
experience of RK05s is that they don't crash that often, and when they do
the heads are not always destroyed.