RK05J vs RK05F

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Wed Jan 19 13:59:36 2005

Ashley,

Unless you are trying to recover data from the pack
which is currently in the drive, I would suggest cleaning
the platter and heads, and then if the foam and molded
plastic parts are not disintegrating, run the drive for
an hour or so with the head load disable switch set so
that the heads don't load. This will allow any dust to
be purged before loading the heads...

--tom

At 02:21 PM 1/19/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>Tom,
>
>Thanks for the info. I'll take the cover off, do a little
>inspection of the pack, heads, foam, etc. and if all
>looks well I'll try to fire it up this weekend.
>
>Ashley
>
> > Ashley,
> >
> > The removable pack is the same for both drives.
> > The additional data capacity comes from the fact
> > that the pack is not removed and as such the
> > alignment is not lost. If I recall correctly,
> > this allow the drive to double the track density.
> >
> > --tom
> >
> > At 12:45 PM 1/19/2005 -0500, Ashley Carder wrote:
> >
> > >Is there any difference in the cartridges for
> > >an RK05F drive vs. an RK05J (or plain RK05)?
> > >I just acquired an RK05F and am getting ready
> > >to hook it up to my system along with my RK05J
> > >drives so I can test it out. I know the pack
> > >holds twice as much data as the RK05/RK05J, but
> > >is there any physical difference in the packs?
> > >
> > >I suppose I'll have to reconfigure my existing
> > >RK05J drives so that the RK05F is either drives
> > >0/1 or 2/3 (or 4/5).
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Ashley
> >
> >
Received on Wed Jan 19 2005 - 13:59:36 GMT