13 Jan
2011
13 Jan
'11
1:33 p.m.
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 they're belt-driven, which belt is one of the most
frequently-failing
parts on these old drives.
Not all 3" drives are belt driven, altough I think the Amstrad ones we're
discussing are.
Any particualr reason why the belt i na 3" drive would be more likely to
fail than that in a 5.25" or 8" drive (both of which were commonly
belt-driven)?
-tony