13 Sep
2016
13 Sep
'16
6:01 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: FDN303 datasheet
On 09/13/2016 04:10 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
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Yeah Chuck, that Samsung is definitely one of the easiest to mod for 8" emulation and
documentation is actually available; as a matter of fact I think I'm the one who first
suggested it to you when you were looking some long time ago since some of us Cromemco
users had been using them for a while.
But the bezel layout is a little critical here; the drives have to fit into slimline 1
1/8" x 5 7/8" 5.25" drive bays/adapters like Compaq used in some of their
servers and portables (although they're actually going into a Commodore PET), and the
NECs are indeed out of a couple of Compaq servers.
I could probably kludge the oval eject button and whatever else needed to make another
drive fit, but I wanted to play around with modding other drives for 8" emulation
anyway while I was at it.
I think I may have enough to make them work, but thanks for returning the tip ;-)
m
As a matter of fact I am playing with some NEC
FD1231T's, trying to
modify them for 8" emulation (1.2MB mode); I had read some of the
Amiga mod articles and they were a little help although they don't
address the speed issue and the DC on pin 2 mod doesn't apply.
Save yourself some aggravation and just pick up some Samsung SFD-321B
drives--common as dirt, particularly if you're not fussy about the
bezel. Easily modified for 360RPM operation--and even has READY as
well as DISK CHANGED outputs.
--Chuck