27 Oct
2007
27 Oct
'07
12:50 p.m.
But given what you said, it could be that all the
packs, including the
DEC ones have been bluk-erased :-(
I wish you hadn't said that :P
Only way to find out is to try it when the replacement arrives.
Meanwhile I also looked at the platter hub. The DEC cartridge has
40 slots evenly spaced around its circumference, whereas this
Memorex pack has only 8, one of which is a "double", presumably
for indexing. As the RL drive uses a reluctor pickup on this area
to sense disk rotational speed (among other things), there is no
way the Memorex would have ever worked in an RL...
There is no way to rewrite the servo information using
a normal RL drive.
Is there anyone out there who has hardware capable of reformatting
these packs i.e. rewriting servo tracks?
-Charles
27 Oct
27 Oct
3:53 p.m.
But given what you said, it could be that all the
packs, including the
DEC ones have been bluk-erased :-(
I wish you hadn't said that :P
Only way to find out is to try it when the replacement arrives.
Meanwhile I also looked at the platter hub. The DEC cartridge has
40 slots evenly spaced around its circumference, whereas this
Memorex pack has only 8, one of which is a "double", presumably for indexing. As the RL drive uses a reluctor pickup
on this area
to sense disk rotational speed (among other things), there is no
I beelive it's also used to get the servo system to start looking for the
servo bursts.
way the Memorex would have ever worked in an RL...
I very much dout it, ut it would eb a fun project to try...
-tony
There is no way to rewrite the servo information
using a normal RL drive.
Is there anyone out there who has hardware capable of reformatting
these packs i.e. rewriting servo tracks?
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