DEC machines that can't format a disk (Was: Good Trip/Score Dec

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Mon May 20 21:01:43 2002

>
> Given the simplicity of the drive hardware - it *had* to have a servo track
> to position itself - there's no surprise it couldn't low-level format. Sort
> of like most modern disk drives - but you can probably buy a 50 GB IDE
> drive today for the cost of one RL01 cartridge back then :-(
>

Umm, you do know that 120Gb IDE hard drives are $120 or less. The trick is
figuring a way to USE a 120Gb drive in place of a RL02...

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Mon May 20 2002 - 21:01:43 BST