29 Jul
2005
29 Jul
'05
8:43 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
That's a secondary issue. Once you have something that looks like an
ST506 drive to any controller you care to name, and which stores the
bitstream in semicondcutor memory, you can then consider a server that
loads images from, say, a SCSI drive into that memory.
I think you're overthinking this. I can't see it being that hard to
adapt the mechanical bits of a different drive to a given set of
electronics. Come to that, I don't really see how it could be that hard
to repair ST506 drives, assuming they had not suffered a catastrophic
head crash.
They were built in relatively dirty environments compared to today's
clean rooms, out of bits that were very high precision *then* but pretty
crappy now. If I can walk into my local SKF or Timken stockist and pick
up the incredibly obscure bearings for my gearbox off the shelf, why not
a hard disk?
Gordon.