10 Aug
2007
10 Aug
'07
9:10 a.m.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8 Aug 2007 at 1:51, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
But the track-to-track distance is practically the same, at least I could
perfectly read all my SORD M23 disks in a standard DSHD drive (with tracks
0-2 obviously missing at the beginning). The M23 disks are 100tpi SS MFM,
the drives used are TEAC FD-50C.
Christian
Perhaps there's not *that* much difference
between 96tpi and 100tpi?
Possibly within the margin of error of the mechanism?
Almost certainly not. 100
tpi and 96 tpi drives locate cylinder 0 in
a different place--and over 77 cylinders, the difference is
substantial. My guess is that the faceplates came prelabeled and the