On 02/26/2012 12:04 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Hi guys,
Does anyone know what the typical range of floppy and ST506/ST412 drive
track-to-track seek rates is?
I'm finding myself having to modify the seek logic in the DiscFerret to
accommodate the Seagate ST-277R RLL drive, which requires that
buffered-seek pulses be spaced between 8 and 200 microseconds apart. Any
more than that and it assumes you're doing a 'slow' seek at 10ms per step.
At the moment the DiscFerret's step rates are set up in 250us intervals,
with an 8-bit divider register. Seek rates can be between 250
microseconds and 64 milliseconds in this configuration.
Feeding the ST277R the 250us step pulses... really screws it up. The
drive deasserts READY and SEEK-COMPLETE and seems to freeze up
completely. Hardly unexpected...
If I change the seek clock to 125us, I get a minimum of 125us and a
maximum of 32ms using the same divider.
Is 32ms likely to be enough for even the slowest drives?
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the slowest-seeking floppy drive
or MFM/RLL hard drive ever made was, and what its track-to-track seek
rate was?
Thanks,
slowest seeking floppy was the SA400 at 40ms though you could push them
to 35.
the ST506 was a stepper driven seek and if memory serves I used 6MS.
However the SA4000 (8" HD) was slower.
Allison