From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: john@grabjohn.com (John Bradford),
msell@ontimesupport.com (Matthew Sell),
stewartsmith@mac.com (Stewart Smith),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List)
Subject: Re: versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:13:28 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304251813.h3PIDSug001857@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0304251259300.6839@chaos> from "Richard B. Johnson" at Apr 25, 2003 01:06:18 PM
> > Just wondering how difficult it would be to make a 9-track tape drive
> > from scratch, and connect it up to the parallel port... Do you think
> > that old hard disk motors, from 5.25" MFM disks be powerful enough for
> > the 120IPS tape transport?
>
> The disk-drive motors, even for the 5.25 floppies were pancake motors
> designed to directly turn the floppy, or run a belt with a small
> ratio. You need a motor that runs at relatively high speed to turn the
> capstan. If the capstan was 1 inch in circumference (about 0.2'' in
> diameter), you need 120 revs/sec = 7200 r.p.m. You won't do this with
> a floppy motor.
I was thinking of hard disk motors... Actually, some of those would
be 3600 r.p.m., so if we used a large capstan, we might be in with a
chance :-). (You'd really need to drive the actual reels as well,
though, I can't see us starting and stopping the whole thing very
quickly just using the capstan motor.)
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-25 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-09 5:02 kernel support for non-english user messages Frank Davis
2003-04-09 5:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-09 5:50 ` Frank Davis
2003-04-09 9:37 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-04-09 11:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-09 5:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-09 8:08 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-04-09 9:33 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-09 10:24 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-04-09 22:07 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-09 22:41 ` Frank Davis
2003-04-09 22:55 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-09 23:53 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-10 1:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-10 18:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-10 20:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-04-10 19:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-11 0:48 ` Christer Weinigel
2003-04-11 15:56 ` Daniel Stekloff
2003-04-10 20:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-10 23:05 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-04-11 5:39 ` DevilKin
2003-04-11 5:49 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-04-11 6:17 ` DevilKin
2003-04-11 17:51 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-11 11:57 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-11 17:55 ` David Lang
2003-04-10 20:36 ` John Bradford
2003-04-10 22:20 ` Shaya Potter
2003-04-11 4:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-11 4:23 ` Shaya Potter
2003-04-11 8:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-04-11 9:09 ` John Bradford
2003-04-11 10:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-11 11:11 ` John Bradford
2003-04-11 11:40 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-24 23:25 ` versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for non-english user messages) Stewart Smith
2003-04-25 7:14 ` John Bradford
2003-04-25 15:20 ` Matthew Sell
2003-04-25 15:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-25 16:18 ` versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for John Bradford
2003-04-25 17:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-25 17:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-25 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25 21:21 ` 9-track tape drive (Was: Re: versioned filesystems in linux) John Bradford
2003-04-25 21:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25 21:31 ` Mike Dresser
2003-04-26 6:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-26 6:57 ` John Bradford
2003-04-25 18:13 ` John Bradford [this message]
2003-04-25 18:34 ` versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-10 8:19 ` kernel support for non-english user messages Oliver Neukum
2003-04-09 13:11 ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-04-10 3:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-10 9:05 ` kernel support for non-English " Riley Williams
2003-04-10 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-10 18:32 ` John Bradford
2003-04-12 2:55 ` Chris Wedgwood
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