At 07:54 PM 2/1/2021, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
The workflow of 'squirt across a bitstream from the
whole disk, let the PC
chew on it and maybe it's right' is fundamentally wrong
It may work on clean media but you are guaranteed of getting garbage after the
head clogs at some point during the march across the disk.
Hmm, OK... So a dirty media problem eventually goops the head...
Are you saying a flux recorder should have a better way of detecting that problem?
And stop earlier?
- John