I thoroughly enjoyed Marc's video of the head cleaning.
Some dumb questions from a guy who has not yet experienced his first head crash on a
removable-pack hard drive:
When it happens, am I correct in assuming that the pack is toast, and should never be
loaded again?
My removable-pack drives are DEC RL02 drives and a Data General drive with one removable
and one fixed platter, using cartridges of the same style as the RL02. The DG drive has a
glass encoder, so I presume that it requires realignment after removing the heads for
cleaning. I might have acquired an alignment pack for it already. But since the RL02
drives use servo bursts on the media, do they require realignment after removing and
replacing the heads?
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/