MO support

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words:
>The Pinnacle Micro MO stuff offered two types of media; 512 byte and 1024
>byte sectors.  I've got an Apex 4.3GB 512-byte sector cart around here
>someplace.  The drives would die if you looked at them cross-eyed--and I
>think the miserable field record of the Apex drives contributed to the
>eventual bankruptcy of Pinnacle.

I have a MaxOptix Tahiti1 drive here on the shelf - 5.25" FH, heavy sucker, 
standard SCSI - it'll take Tahiti 1G disks (500M/side - the one disk I had 
always had R/W errors & problems) and standard 600Meg disks (300Meg/side - 
the 2 I had worked flawlessly) - 512byte sectors. The only difference I 
could see w/the Tahiti disk was that the sectors were staggered & there 
were more sectors on the outer cylinders of the disk. Who knows: maybe that 
confused the drive.... ;-)

 From what I understand, the 650Meg disks (325Meg/side) disks had 1024 byte 
sectors, and would not work with my drive.

AFAIK, it still works tho I haven't used it in prolly 4-5 years or so...

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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