1 Feb
2018
1 Feb
'18
5:39 p.m.
>> but dbit.com offers an adapter called an
FDADAP that lets you connect
>> a 50 pin 8" disk to the PC controller. I have a couple and they work
>> great.
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Exactly what does a FDADP do for *reading*? Nothing
that I can figure,
other than re-arrange the 50 line SA-800 interface to a 34-line SA-400 type.
for reading, it doesn't do anything other than cabling. It means using a
flat 34 cable and a flat 50 cable, without the trivial effort of making
your own 34 to 50 cable.
For those drives that require RWC/TG40 signals, I
agree that *writing*
may benefit from it.
THAT is the part that my homemade cables don't do.
But, it was extremely rare that I needed to WRITE 8".
When I did have to, I tried to write to fresh empty disks, so that I could
stay mostly on lower numbered tracks.