10 Apr
2006
10 Apr
'06
9:16 a.m.
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 21:19 +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
ST506 is a low-level, raw, interface. What you see on
the interface
connectoer is essentially the pulse stream to/from the head. It's up to
the cotnroller to turn that into the user data bytes/words.
So, and I do know this
is perverse :) - you could actually record, for
example, audio onto an ST hard drive, and play it back? Of course, it'd
just be a toy, but...
One thing I've done previously on a dead IDE drive is to hook a Hi-fi
amp to the voice coil actuator, and have listened to surprisingly
audible audio with that.
-toresbe :)