HP 7945 disk format
Al Kossow
aek at bitsavers.org
Fri Oct 21 16:12:38 CDT 2016
I suspect it's the head servo.
I've been trying to get a solid read out of the v170 I've been experimenting with all morning.
It chugs along, recals, then a seek failure.
I'd also like to understand the failure mode of Maxtor positioners. I had a 2190 croak (literally)
as I was trying to read it.
click, click, click, CROWKKKKKKKKK, clunk.
On 10/21/16 1:22 PM, Rik Bos wrote:
> But do you know the cause of failure of these drive's, except of cause the obvious shorting tantalium caps?
> I used hpdrive to backup the working one.
>
> -Rik
>
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