13 Sep
2013
13 Sep
'13
2:59 p.m.
I agree with your recommendation. These days, I doubt
if anyone
uses a 1 MB DSDD 8" floppy to archive files, so the exercise is
That depends on the machine. I certainly use them on PERQs and PDP's
most likely to demonstrate a system's ability to
function.
BUT, 30 years ago, that 1 MB DSDD 8" floppy was valuable
and a user might have had sufficient reasons to use just the first
side of the media on an RX02 and both sides at other times in
an RX03. So both index holes would have been useful.
Better yet, as I suggested, place a DPDT switch into the detection
circuit and any single sided media becomes double sided with a
flip of the switch - no additional index holes to mess up the jacket!!
This works if you want to use a DS disk as SS in a DS drive. I believe
the OP has a single-head drive with just one index sensor, so you can't
swich the sensors round electrically.
-tony