[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[David Champion]

I loved the "beep-ity beep beep" sound the old 5.25" Seagate MFM/RLL 
drives made. IIRC that was because the read head was controlled by what 
was basically a modified speaker voice coil, instead of a conventional 
stepper motor.

p.s. Is this thread dead yet?

-dc

Darcy Baston wrote:
> Rattling...probably close to the truth. :)
>  
> On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 01:22PM, Nathan C. Smith <smith@ipmvs.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think some of those old drives ran slower, and cooler and didn't have
>>tolerances as tight as they are today to hit the capacity they do in the
>>same form factor.  I bet there are some 10 MB Winchester drives somewhere
>>still rattling away.