BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> KM> respond in a timely manner, hence the "busy" thing.
> Based on what you described some sort of read/write/buffer failure seems
> to make sense. ...I'm tangentally thinking of solid state drives and
> how long they will last. (Probably not at all the same.)
It has no cache, but if an electronic gate is clogging up, so to
speak... that's how it acts, anyway. Going to become a wind chime,
methinks. I have a whole boxful of old small drives that don't have
issues, so it's not special.
> KM> Which is amazing because if there's one place IBM failed
> KM> spectacularly, it was in hard drives (remember the fractured
> KM> platter issue?). This is the only live IBM HD I've ever seen!
> Wonder if they'd be interested in analyzing it to see what they did
> right, and compare to what failed in that era.
I doubt it, since they haven't made HDs in ages.
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