From: "Doc Shipley" <doc at mdrconsult.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:12 PM
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
The
question is, is this one of the drives that plays nicely with a
PC FDC? I have a couple of older ISA IDE/FD controllers, and an Adaptec
1542 if I can dig it up.
Does it have a standard data connector? This should be a 50-conductor
edge conncetor.
Looks like a standard 50-pin edge connector, yes. After reading a
little in the owner's manual, it's MFM, dual density, so worst case I
should be able to run it on an older PC-based FDC, right?
Doc
The 277 is a fast repeat fast single sided floppy drive.
The high-speed seek can be ignored but what can not be ignored is the track
location. Being a dual drive both heads move at the same time, this can
confuse some software.
Details on making a 34 to 50 pin cable can be found on my website.
The Persci's also have a slew of jumpers, it is best just to try it the way
it is.
The Persci's are very sensative, shipping often destroys them. To ship it
you need a special cardboard shipping retainer to keep the heads from
slamming back and forth.
It also uses special wheat-lamps that burn out easily.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com