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- From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
- Subject: Re: 8 inch drive questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.195203.27936@netcom.com>
- Keywords: terminators, power connectors
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <C1H0FH.9H6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:52:03 GMT
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- In article <C1H0FH.9H6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
- >As I look at the pile of unused (unusable) 8" drives in one corner of
- >my basement, I came up with a couple of questions
- >
- >1) What do I need for the DIP style terminator resistors on Qume DataTrak8
- > DSDS drive?
- >
- >2) I have a couple of fancy 1/2 height NEC 8" drives that use DC power
- > only. What is the pin out on the power plug? I't a little 4 or 5
- >square pins in row connector, not the usual massive block style.
- >
- >3) Does anyone have mods to a cheap PC floppy controller to let it read/write
- > 8" drives? I'm not interested in buying a new card, but have several
- > extra XT and AT floppy controllers to experiment with.
-
- Can't help with 1 and 2, but the AT 1.2 Mbyte format is
- supposed to be hardware and software compatible with the
- 8" drive double sided double density format. Haven't
- actually hooked one up myself, but I'd be interested to
- know what results you get. Note that the cable is not the
- same, so you have to figure out an adapter.
-
- Good luck.
- --
- Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.
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