Rotating memory data recovery

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "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