Rotating memory data recovery

[John Lawson]

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