All:
I have several random parts I'm going to pull together to build
a "new" floppy system for my IMSAI. I have an SD Sales Versafloppy
controller card (which used the FD1771B controller) and several 5.25" floppy
drives (all soft sectored). The Versafloppy manual indicates that it will
work with a Shugart SA400/450. When I look up the specs on the SA400, it
indicates that the unformatted capacity is 109.6k and the formatted capacity
is 81k. I didn't read the entire manual but this look like SSSD specs.
I of course don't have any floppy drives like this but I have
several original PC drives (TM-100 and others) and several 360k drives of
various types.
The question is this: can I use these later drives on this
controller without problems? If there are problems, what might they be?
Thanks.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/>
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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