Maxtor XT-2190

David Gesswein djg at pdp8online.com
Sun Jan 18 12:06:01 CST 2015


On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 07:29:10PM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2015, David Gesswein wrote:
> 
> That drive has a dedicated servo surface (thus the odd number of
> heads). Not sure there's any concept of microstepping in that
> arrangement.
> 
The Seagate ST-4096 is also a servo drive and has the ability to move
the heads a partial track for read error recovery. I assume its adding an 
offset into the servo loop to vary the head position.


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