4 Jan
2014
4 Jan
'14
12:29 a.m.
On 01/03/2014 02:19 PM, Dave Mabry wrote:
If an MDS225 was "upgraded" with the double
density boardset and the
internal cable, that turns the internal drive into a double density only
drive.
I've seen several that were upgraded that way.
Yeah, I remember both the DD and SD versions of the board set--and I
remember how hot the channel board ran. One of the first questions I
asked on the VCF posting was whether or not the OP had the DD board
set--kind of hard to miss. He reported that he did not, so he's running
off the 8271 built-in controller.
If he was using the DD board set, that would create an interesting
issue, as it uses MMFM, not MFM for encoding. Not something easily done
on a PC.
Fortunately, it's clear that plain old SSSD disks will work just
fine--and he can probably use a PC to write the images to disk.
--Chuck