16 Aug
2015
16 Aug
'15
6:19 a.m.
On 08/15/2015 09:49 PM, dwight wrote:
Sorry about the error in which side has the cone and
which side has
the cylinder. I don't have a 800 here in front of me to look at. It
still doesn't make any difference if the moving arm is a little off.
The piece that is mounted on the arm is designed to float on the
spring. It is still the spindle that aligns the disk. The piece on
the arm would have to be really out of line to cause the disk to not
seat fully on the spindle.
That's the conclusion I came to--for a way to see how the whole
mechanism works, see Shugart's patent 3,898,814 illustrations.
I believe that the earlier Micropolis 5.25" floppy drives worked the
same way. I recall that when they first came out, they'd mangle the hub
area of a floppy because the spindle motor often had been turned off by
the host. Eventually, the design was modified so that the motor spun up
as the drive door closed, which solved the problem.
Before that, Dysan had experimented with putting a reinforcing ring on
their floppies. By the time high-density drives came out, the problem
had been solved so there was no need to reinforce the HD floppy hub area.
--Chuck