20 Oct
2006
20 Oct
'06
11:59 a.m.
On 20 Oct 2006 at 11:45, David Griffith wrote:
I recently sold a Qumetrak 842 8-inch floppy drive to
a fellow who's
restoring a CMI vintage synthesizer. He says that this particular model
is what the synth uses. Can anyone think of a reason why he couldn't use
some other model of drive as long as it's capable of reading DSDD media?
Seek rate can vary all over the place with 8" drives. I think the
842 will handle either 6 or 8 ms track-to-track, but others may
require as much as 30 msec.
--Chuck