18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
3:43 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
If you carefully move the heads towards the spindle
with the machine
turned off (you can tilt the head assembly to free it from the
leadscrew), do they go back to cylinder 0 when you turn the machine on
and/or insert a disk (I am not sure when an Apple would do this)?
If I can make any judgments based upon the speed of a typical 800k Mac
drive and noise coming from it, I think they go back to cylinder zero
between each sector read.
(It's a joke, but the noise of a Mac drive IS pretty distinctive.)