Rotating memory data recovery

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Mon Sep 13 11:41:50 2004

>>>>> "John" == John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com> writes:

 John> 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.


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

Drums have flying heads, too.

      paul
Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 11:41:50 BST