8" drive variations

13 Mar 2007

...
   Some drives
have an onboard FM data separator.  
 Indeed - I think I've come across that before. For drives that have it, can it 
 typically be disabled? 
Normally, you can just ignore it. You still get the 'raw' bitstream on 
one pin of the interface connector, it's just that the drive tries to do 
a clock/data serparation assuming it's an FM stream at the standard rate 
and sends out the sepearated clock and data on 2 other pins. So just use 
the first, raw, data pin.

-tony

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