20 May
2002
20 May
'02
2:46 p.m.
At 09:01 PM 5/20/02 -0500, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
Yup. I've never had to buy a RL cartridge, though, so I've no idea how much
they cost.
(All my RL disks were VMS distribution disks recycled onto my PDP-8.)
-Rick
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...