14 Jan
2011
14 Jan
'11
4:10 a.m.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Jules Richardson wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
Indeed - I seem to remember the one in my Apple /// would occasionally fail
when the head positioner would fall out of the grooved disk.
That's why the cover is never fastened to my Northstar Horizon. Head arm
has a steel ball under tension that keeps walking out of the groove on the
cam.
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On 12 Jan
2011 at 19:00, dwight elvey wrote:
I don;t think they're any worse than other disk drives. And a lot better
than that darn Shugart thing with the spirally-gooved plastic disk to move
the hean. ARGH! I believe all 3.5 inch drives without DiskReady
will block
both the read data and the index until the drive is considered
to be ready.
I don't know about the 3" drives; they're pretty
primitive. And