Given the simplicity of the drive hardware - it *had* to have a servo track
to position itself - there's no surprise it couldn't low-level format. Sort
of like most modern disk drives - but you can probably buy a 50 GB IDE
drive today for the cost of one RL01 cartridge back then :-(
Umm, you do know that 120Gb IDE hard drives are $120 or less. The trick is
figuring a way to USE a 120Gb drive in place of a RL02...
-Lawrence LeMay
Now that DEC is gone, is there anybody who can re-format the platters?
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *