2 Jun
2006
2 Jun
'06
3:50 p.m.
Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words:
The Pinnacle Micro MO stuff offered two types of media;
512 byte and 1024
byte sectors. I've got an Apex 4.3GB 512-byte sector cart around here
someplace. The drives would die if you looked at them cross-eyed--and I
think the miserable field record of the Apex drives contributed to the
eventual bankruptcy of Pinnacle.
I have a MaxOptix Tahiti1 drive here on the shelf - 5.25" FH, heavy sucker,
standard SCSI - it'll take Tahiti 1G disks (500M/side - the one disk I had
always had R/W errors & problems) and standard 600Meg disks (300Meg/side -
the 2 I had worked flawlessly) - 512byte sectors. The only difference I
could see w/the Tahiti disk was that the sectors were staggered & there
were more sectors on the outer cylinders of the disk. Who knows: maybe that
confused the drive.... ;-)
From what I understand, the 650Meg disks (325Meg/side) disks had 1024 byte
sectors, and would not work with my drive.
AFAIK, it still works tho I haven't used it in prolly 4-5 years or so...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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