>> does the early Option Board work w/single
sided drives?
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
C: My concern
was that it might return an error upon trying to
access
the 2nd head. But IBM used ss media in the early days so I guess as you
say there shouldn't be a problem.
2nd head will be no problem. Option board "TE" program can do either side
of 360K disks.
BUT, will you have an index pulse? NOT present with other side of "NIBBLE
NOTCH" disks, which is why you need to ALSO do index hole access, and/or
NOT present for double sided disks in a single sided 8" drive, and/or NOT
present with single sided disks in a double-side-ONLY drive.
that d
Brain fart here--it didn't register that you said
"early Option Board".
I seem to recall that those weren't capable of 500Kbps operation.
Maybe someone remembers.
That's what I found, but Central Point would not state so.
It should, however work great with FM 8"