3 Mar
2011
3 Mar
'11
6:38 p.m.
On 2 Mar 2011 at 18:45, les at frii.com wrote:
The Victor 9000 had a variable spindle speed, I cant
remember if the
drive spun faster on the inside or outside tracks. Also, the index
hole detector was not used. Many of the drives did not have a index
detector, on the drives that did have an index hole sensor, it worked
just as well without it plugged in. I got in a argument about the
ability to use hard sectored floppies in the Victor 9000 with a Victor
sales rep once. Even after I showed him that the index detector was
not connected, he still didn't believe me.
One of the PC mags covered the disk operation back when. The drive
spins more slowly when the head is on the outside tracks (i.e. CLV,
but ISTR that it isn't "constant", but rather zoned).
--Chuck