Does anyone know if these are 40 or 80 cylinder? Google seems to suggest that
they're 40 (which is what I need). The drives all have little stickers on
saying "Quad density" though (which always implies to me 80-track, but maybe
to Tandon it means 40 track but you have the luxury of two sides :)
A -2 should be a 40 track (48tpi) drive. The -4 would have been the 80 track
(96tpi) drive - unless it's a -4M which iirc is 100tpi.
If it hasn't fallen off, the Tandon drives have a little sticker up under the
door opener handle - open the doot, then look up from the front bottom of the
drive - inside the handle you may find a sticker reading "48 tpi" or
"96 tpi".
The term "quad density" was used by some people to describe a Double-Sided,
Double-Densoty drive (4 times as much storage as a SSSD drive) - NorthStar
used to describes their DSDD drives as "quad density" even though they were
only 48tpi.
Easy way to tell for sure - hook it up to your imagedisk machine, then gointo
the "Align/test" function and step to track 40 - if the head travels the
whole distance, the drive is 40 track - if it only goes 1/2 way, it's 80
track.
Dave
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