Date   : Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:11:23 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Viglen Winnie / Miniscribe 3438

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <8F8141AACE2E4A7E9D005C137146B1EE.MAI@...>, Ian
> Wolstenholme <BBCMailingList@...> writes
> 
>> I've got several working ST225 drives as it happens!  There is one
>> in my Technomatic Winchester (which admittedly needs about 10 mins
>> to warm up before you can read data reliably off it)
> 
> It's probably had data written when it was too cold/too hot and the
> stepper motor needs to warm up to bring the head back on track.  No
> servo tracks on those old clunkers! ;-)

Indeed. Plus you had to format them in the orientation that they'd live in - 
they'd work fine vertically or horizontally, but you can't change between the 
two without a format as it upsets the tracking :(