Lawrence LeMay wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
Now that DEC is gone, is there anybody who can re-format the platters?
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Received on Mon May 20 2002 - 21:04:27 BST