10 Jun
2013
10 Jun
'13
9:19 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de> wrote:
Yes. That was, essentially, the conclusion of the discussion, but nobody
managed to come up with a practical, copyable design.
Good morning,
I don't think we ever came to a conclusion. ;-)
Ah, ok... I understand :-)
Indeed.
This has been discussed at length among us DEC folks
here in the SF Bay
area.
And with which conclusion? As far as I remember the drive outputs a sector 0
pulse and index pulses.
Sounds right.
> So, new
question: Would there be any interest in a little circuit that
> can be added to any RK05 drive?
I think of a little (!!) board (2*3cm) that can be taped to the RK05's card
cage. You solder 5 AWG30 wires to it. You'll need WireWrap tool and
unwrapping tool to do the job in 3 minutes. So the only modification to the drive would be
unwrapping of one backplane
connection. I find this acceptable.
I think that would be *entirely* acceptable.
The board itself will have a jumper where you can
select the number of
desired virtual sectors.
Are there any required (practical) results other than 12-sector pack appears
to be a 16-sector pack?
I will do the PCB design tomorrow. This will be a new
product in my
will-be-famous webshop!
I look forward to your efforts. Like many other here, I have many (over 50)
12-sector packs and few (1?) 16-sector packs.
>>> As an aside, I'm in about the same
boat. I have 4 16-sector packs and
>>> 200-300 12 sector packs.
Exactly... *divisible by 4
If anyone in the States is looking for 12-sector packs, I should be able to
mount, format, and provide a few. I have a couple right now, packed for
shipping, FOB Ohio.
-ethan