On 05/15/2015 12:42 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
It all "revolves" (sorry for the pun) around what is meant by "Provisioning". Fixed provisioning of storage space, be it by file system or by bulk allocation or by volume of mercury in the delay line is still provisioning that has to be done at "initialization". Perhaps the initialization is the physical building of the machine!
When I say "or similar' I really do mean that in the loosest of terms.
On that drum, there were a couple of "tracks" at the top of the drum, that consisted of ferrite lines printed directly on the bare drum. One was the clock track and the other, the "sector" track, which was used to indicate where the data started. There was no other formatting done, other than physically moving a head, if there was a bad spot on the drum. I used to gap those heads with a strip of bond paper. I could also use the front panel read & write directly to the drum. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org