Rl drives - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Dec 2002

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    I am _darn_ sure the seek function on an RK11
doesn't check sector 
 headers (I would have to actually dig out the prints to be sure). I know 
 I've used it to move heads around on the alignment pack, which doesn't 
 have convnetionally recorded headers. Quite apart from the fact that an 
 RK05/RK11 can seek on a blank disk so as to be able to format it (a blank 
 RK05 pack really is blank).  
 We must have been talking past each other here. I didn't mean that the
 controller/drive made a check on the disk that it was on the right
 track. The drive *knows* it's on the right track, without checking. Like 
 Sorry, no it doesn't... 
You're right. Too long since I worked on this, I apologize. Unless you
specify a read-all or write-all, the RK05 does check at read or write.

I should have kept my mouth shut. :-)

	Johnny

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