26 Jan
2016
26 Jan
'16
9:20 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, CuriousMarc wrote:
You make me feel lucky. I have all 3 (almost, I have
the low density HP
9121 rather than an HD 9122 so I can use it on my HP 85)... Haven't
restored or even powered up the recently acquired HP 9895 yet, but the
HP 82901A and the HP 9121D now work great. Quite low capacity (270k?)
due to the weird LIF formatting, formats 35 tracks but uses only 33, out
of the 40. I wonder why.
Partially because the original 5.25" drives (Shugart SA400) were 35 track
(#0 - #34), not 40.
Single sided single density was about 100K. Double sided double density
could be up to 400K, with 360K being typical.
I don't know anything yet about the 8" HP
9895
and its encoding. I thought they were surprisingly high capacity (1.2
MB?) considering their age. Am I right?
8" double sided double denwsity is, indeed 1.2M or thereabouts, varying by
format choices.
5.25" "high" density mimics 8".
One company, NEC, made their 5.25" "high density" format the same as
their 8" format, and even ran their 3.5" drives at 360RPM, instead of the
more common 300RPM, so that they could have the same format on those,
also.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com