4 Oct
2004
4 Oct
'04
5:18 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
Wasn't there a device at one time that had 5 1.44mb floppies raided to
form a 5m drive?
The Amlyn drive had a cartridge holding 5 1.2M 5.25" floppies,
that could be accessed one at a time, or as if it were a 6M disk
(physically only one disk was loaded at a time). But although it
could span disks, it did not use any reasonable "RAID" method.
The diskettes had a couple of extra notches cut into them,
but were otherwise normal 600 Oersted diskettes.
So build it with MODULAR platters.
Sounds
suspiciously like floppy disks. Technology once again comes
full circle.
Jay