20 Oct
2006
20 Oct
'06
1:26 p.m.
> 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?
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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.
Especially interesting because the Qumetrak 142 5.25" drive was the
slowest one that had come along. So slow that MS/PC-DOS 2.10 was needed
to allow for it.