On 21 Jun 2007 at 16:05, Allison wrote:
Actually the
worst flub is the external drive setups with power
supplies independent of the
main box. I think there may have been
three FDC cards made that suppressed WE/ if the power failed. If
there was a disk in the drive.. wave byebye as it did a motor on,
head load and write "1" to all drives.
A really simple fix on the drive end (gate WE/ only if STEP/ isn't
asserted) but rarely done. Were there any drives out there that were
smart enough to do this? It might have also taken care of the
"upside down" cable problem.
Cheers,
Chuck