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- From: ncrwater@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Latala - ICR)
- Subject: Re: 1.3" 20Meg drive from HP
- Message-ID: <BtK6yv.537@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: hard drive
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <hpclub.714503248@ee.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug24.144849.17518@uceng.UC.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:42:30 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1992Aug24.144849.17518@uceng.UC.EDU> rabagley@uceng.UC.EDU (Ross A Bagley) writes:
- >
- >The drive is called Kittyhawk, yes it does have a capacity of ~20Mb, no there
- >will not be an interface for the hp48sx. The hp95lx will also probably not
- >bebefit from it, though later product will probably include it internally.
- >I wouldn't drop it, or really call it any more shock resistant than any other
- >drive, the glass platters aren't going to be any more durable than the
- >aluminum normally used, and the read/write heads are going to be even closer
- >to the platters than in other drives, so crashing it is still as easy as ever.
- >I'm sure they are going to use it in their next-generation palmtop computers,
- >but unless hp packed some pretty good tricks into the card slots, the hp48
- >and the hp95 are going to have to live with SRAM and EEPROMS.
-
- In a recent EE Times issue there was an article about this drive. They stated
- that the drive was designed to withstand a 100 G's while operating. The drive
- senses loading somehow and cancels the write operation until the transient
- passes.
-
- A 100 G was something like a three foot drop onto a concrete floor.
-
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- ncrwater@uwaterloo,ca
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