On 14 Jan 2011 at 21:11, Tony Duell wrote:
However, can you step it slowly enough (sensibly) that
this is not a
problem? If you snd, say, 12ms or 20ms-spaced step pulses, will it
remain ready all the time?
Yes, that works also. Akin to stepping an ST412 hard drive in ST506
fashion.
For pure bad deisgn, nothing beats the Shugart SA4000
hard disk.
I have one of those. It has all the warts of an early design.
--Chuck