8 Apr
1999
8 Apr
'99
10:13 a.m.
I used to work for Burroughs and they had a
computer that used 8"
floppys that spun continously. Burroughs said to replace the disks every
100 hours. I have no idea how long they would actually run before failing.
Does anyone know? I have a CPM machine that spins it's 5 1/4" disk
continously but I haven't run it enough for a disk to fail.
I have 8" on my CPM crate and that spins 100% (most 8" do) with the head
loaded and I have disks that are years old (thousands of hours).
I also tend to run the motors full time on 5.35 drives to save spin up
time and hed load time (it can save a lot of delay!). I haven't had
problems with media failure that was related to doing this.
A dirty or damaged head however can kill a disk in moments as it can
lterally scrape the media off!
Allison