26 Aug
2014
26 Aug
'14
9:12 a.m.
On 8/26/14 7:42 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
If you need to follow a servo track in real time during rotation, it gets harder.
The recovery of the Cray pack demonstrated that was unnecessary (just move the heads 10 or
20x the cyls/in)
We know it's possible, the problem is if it's worth the time/money to do it.
I'm sure whoever has this RP03 pack isn't going to spend a couple of grand to get
it read, for example.
And it is unlikely that someone who actually HAD a working RP03 would risk destroying
their heads on
a pack in unknown condition.
14" multi-platter rotating media are one of the few things in computing that scares
me to work on.