13 Sep
2004
13 Sep
'04
4:41 a.m.
>>>> "John" == John Lawson
<jpl15(a)panix.com> writes:
John> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Paul Koning wrote:
>
John> What can the actual drum clock
be... I dunno... another
John> reason to slow the drum; see below further...
> No, don't do that. The heads might not fly
if you do that, and
> you'd end up with an instant head crash on every head.
John> I was (mistakenly?) assuming that we were trying to recover
John> data from a *drum* ... if this is a platter, and the heads are
John> spaced courtesy of Mr. Bernoulli - then slowing down the
John> rotation would in fact be a Bad Idea...
Drums have flying heads, too.
paul