27 Oct
2007
27 Oct
'07
6:53 p.m.
But given what you said, it could be that all the
packs, including the
DEC ones have been bluk-erased :-(
I wish you hadn't said that :P
Only way to find out is to try it when the replacement arrives.
Meanwhile I also looked at the platter hub. The DEC cartridge has
40 slots evenly spaced around its circumference, whereas this
Memorex pack has only 8, one of which is a "double", presumably for indexing. As the RL drive uses a reluctor pickup
on this area
to sense disk rotational speed (among other things), there is no
I beelive it's also used to get the servo system to start looking for the
servo bursts.
way the Memorex would have ever worked in an RL...
I very much dout it, ut it would eb a fun project to try...
-tony
There is no way to rewrite the servo information
using a normal RL drive.
Is there anyone out there who has hardware capable of reformatting
these packs i.e. rewriting servo tracks?