12 Aug
2006
12 Aug
'06
5:28 p.m.
On Saturday 12 August 2006 06:07 pm, Dave Dunfield wrote:
It's been ages since I used it, probably last in about the 1990-2 timeframe,
but the main thing is to be able to read out the drive's speed in RPM (I
guess they use the index pulse for that?) and to be able to step the drive to
specific tracks, which is where the alignment disk comes in to the picture.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
Not that
I'd toss it if one of those were to come my way...
Somewhere I also have a "drive exerciser" cartridge that plugged into a
Yamaha CX-5 computer as well -- this was no doubt meant for their drive
but would work equally well with any other drive that could be plugged in
and powered up if you adjusted the value of the maximum track number,
which was easy enough to do in the software since it ran in BASIC. It
came in handy a few times.
What exactly does the "drive excerciser" do which comes in handy? -- I've
got some diagnostics and drive test tools built into ImageDisk which I find
very useful, and I'd be happy to add any other such functions that folks
need (provided of course that it can be done with the PC hardware).