7 Sep
2016
7 Sep
'16
10:18 a.m.
From: Paul Koning
Some IBM systems ... have a "2315" drive
which is an RK05.
Yeah, I think that was the original source of these packs. The Diablo 30/31
drives (used on the RK11-C controller before the RK05 was created) were
designed to use 2315 packs.
From: Tony Duell
My intention was to put the hub on a spare spindle ..
put the platter
on, turn it round by hand and use a lever-type dial gauge to get
minimum run-out.
One of the people I buy PDP-11 parts from reports that he actually did this
(using the exact procedure you describe) BITD. Apparently there's some
multi-platter pack that has the same exact platter as the RK05 (2315) pack,
and he had some damaged RK05 packs, and moved platters from the bad
multi-platter pack to the RK05's.
Noel