15 Sep
2015
15 Sep
'15
10:21 a.m.
On Sep 15, 2015, at 1:11 PM, tony duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Yes, that sounds right. The terminology gets a bit confusing. I thought the drives were
actually different because of the sector count, but it sounds like that's handled in
the controller and the drive doesn't care.
paul
There was also an RK08, as I recall -- same
platter as the RK11/RK05 but 16 sectors per track instead of 12.
I thought the RK(0)8 was the controller for a PDP8 system. I have an RK8E in my PDP8/E,
it links to
a normal RK05 drive.
It does indeed use 16 (hard) sector packs, unlike the 12 sector ones used in the same
RK05 drives
linked to an RK11 controller (RK11C, RK11D, RKV11D) on a PDP11.