7 Dec
2006
7 Dec
'06
12:07 p.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
On 6/12/06 22:27, "Gordon JC Pearce"
<gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
Head actuator I think; it powers up and spins up, doesn't sound headcrashed
but I can't hear or feel the heads move.....
I know that some old MFM drives *did* end up with the heads "stuck" in
place. A few people have said that RD53s are bad for that, so it might
be worth a shot. You can't make it work any less...
Gordon.
Indeed,
it looks like the original boot drive (also an RD53) long gave up
the ghost, which is a shame because it had RT11 5.4 and one of the systems I
wrote in the 1980's......
What actually fails in them?