29 Apr
2005
29 Apr
'05
12:02 a.m.
The 6095 disk drive is the microNova/microEclipse equivilent of the
Nova/Eclipse 6045 disk drive, a 5 MB removable + 5 MB fixed disk drive
(internally called the R2D2 project within Data General). They used 12
sectors per track, hard-indexed disk packs (5440-type).
No heads/platter need to be removed to clean the heads; the removable heads
can be easily cleaned from the disk pack area and the fixed platter heads
can be cleaned by removing the blue shroud around the entire drive and
approach the bottom heads from the side.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jos Dreesen" <jos.mar at bluewin.ch>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: my Data General ( MP/200, not 4/X) and 6095 Disk drive
Tom Jenning's account of getting his Nova up again
made me go back to
my Nova MP/200, a 2901 bitslice based machine.
With the machine came a DG6095 diskdrive, on which i did not find any
info.
It looks identical, inside and outside, to Tom's 6070 drive.
Questions :
- anybody know for sure that the 6095 is just the Euro version
(220V/50HZ) of the US 6070 drive ?
- Anybody has a spare pack ( fat chance, I know )
- and failing that would RL02 packs fit ( if so, how many sectors )
- and do I really need to dismantle heads and fixed platter to clean
them ? ( I believe I know the answer to that...)
Jos Dreesen.