From: SIM DOG on Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:59 AM > > G'day all > > I remember hearing about the Australian army developing something > similar with DEC (who?) back in the early 1980's. Idea was it had to be > robust enough for a sled drop out of the back of a Herc! > > Not sure how they handed the online storage. I doubt if your average > 80's HDD could cope with that sort of shock.
There were some low-capacity severe environment drives available; fixed-head (head-per-track) devices were one alternative, sold-state another. Rolm was one of the manufs, offering mil-versions of DG Nova and Eclipse systems. While I know from personal experience some of the drives HP sold (HP-1000, remember them?) could take extreme abuse--operating near the chain locker of a ship, with horrible vibrations during anchor ops--I suspect a sled drop was out of scope... -- dnl My statements represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
