Reply to post: Re: Memories ...

Disk areal density: Not a constant, consistent platter

seacook
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Re: Memories ...

Friday night. Head crash in drive 2. Operator needed to access data on disk pack and moved disk pack to drive 3. Unable to read. Repeat drive 4 then drive 5 then drive 6 and finally the last drive in the string drive 7. Of course the disk packs originally removed to enable installation of crashed pack from drive 2 in each of the other drivers were replaced into their respective drives. The operator realized that there was a major problem! Finally called for help.

Evening destruction count: 6 X 50MByte disk packs and 43 heads across 6 drives

Pizza and lots of beer next day after premium hour call out to repair all the issues.

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