13 Aug
2023
13 Aug
'23
7:48 p.m.
Yup; I think I've got a couple of each type somewhere; don't recall who the
other ones were, but two are definitely Canon.
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 3:22 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> Yes,
absolutely. One spindle motor, with a floppy hub on each end, and
> two heads on one voice coil positioner, one for each floppy. I had one
> of those. The performance improvement was VERY marginal. I had to take
> out the solenoid that lifted the pad that loaded the media against the
> head, the timing of the head loading somehow was all wrong and allowed
> it to start writing before the pad had fully loaded.
On Sun, 13 Aug 2023, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Theoretically it could be done with only 2
motors--one spindle motor and
one positioner. Probably not the best for performance, but doable.
ISTR that one of the "Dual" 5.25" floppy drives worked that way.
It might even have been Canon; there were two models, one with separate
positioners, and one sharing a single positioner.
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