Rotating memory data recovery

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Mon Sep 13 11:37:24 2004

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Paul Koning wrote:

>
> John> What can the actual drum clock be... I dunno... another
> John> reason to slow the drum; see below further...
>
> No, don't do that. The heads might not fly if you do that, and you'd
> end up with an instant head crash on every head.


   I was (mistakenly?) assuming that we were trying to recover data from a
*drum* ... if this is a platter, and the heads are spaced courtesy of Mr.
Bernoulli - then slowing down the rotation would in fact be a Bad Idea...


  Cheers

John
Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 11:37:24 BST