On 19 Jul 2010 at 8:00, Steven Hirsch wrote:
The new disk loads properly without mechanical issues,
but will not
format or otherwise show signs of life. I'm guessing they wanted to
preserve a market for blank diskettes and cartridges. Reminds me of
the DEC Rainbow (wasn't that system deliberately crippled to prevent
it from being able to format blank media?).
If the Amlyn disks use an embedded servo, formatting one is a
mechanical issue--you need to periodically offset from the central
track axis a bit one way or the other to write a servo burst. Not
easy to do wth a conventional read/write drive.
--Chuck