5 Feb
2008
5 Feb
'08
6:53 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:25:14PM -0500, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I don't have my dual!!! RX33 in my hands right now
(it is buried), but
I thought that RX33 drives were Teac in the first place. Do I remember
that incorrectly?
A real RX33 was a real Teac FD55GFR floppy drive with the jumpers
set in a way that made the RQDX3 happy. I have pulled FD55GFRs from
PCs and rejumpered them and hung them off of DEC equipment with total
success. I have never tried using a different model of floppy drive,
however.
Back in the day, when people were scrapping PC-ATs and clones, I
made a point of nabbing any FD55GFRs I saw. I don't think I used
anything else in PCs I built. The drive was, at one time, easy to
find, not terribly expensive, and, in my experience, quite reliable.
I know the jumper settings are floating around on the 'net. I'm sure
that many list members here could cough up the right settings as well.
The trick is to find the right drive these days, when they haven't
been in daily use for a lot of years.
-ethan
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