21 Dec
2012
21 Dec
'12
2:35 p.m.
On 12/21/2012 12:28 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
I've yet to see one of these Samsung drives that
has the options
required for the disk change signal and that can be configured to
disable high density (1.44MB) mode to force the drive into double
density (720K) only mode. I guess these are like the Teac drives in that
they made dozens, if not hundreds of different revisions/models of these
drives.
I've shipped several to customers with old CNC gear that use the PC98
convention of pin 34 = READY, pin 2 = DISK CHANGED and pin 4 = IN USE.
You need a couple of cm of wire for the pin 2 disk change, but the mod
is very obvious.
The 720K thing hasn't come up yet, as all of the drives that I've sent
out have been for PC98-style controllers which don't use 2D media, so I
haven't bothered to check. In fact, I don't know if the sensor's
optical or mechanical. In either case, the remedy is obvious.
--Chuck