28 May
2012
28 May
'12
2:01 p.m.
> One thing I noticed in a recent adventure in
double-sided 8" floppy reading
> was the recovery rate on the top head has been MUCH worse than the bottom.
> I was running the drive vertically, so gravity shouldn't have been a
> factor.
Maybe gravity is a factor, in that the mechanism has deteriorated
through age and that the gravity of being run horizontally may help?
(just a random thought.)