TEAC FD-55GFR = Quad Density? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Oct 2005

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Subject: TEAC FD-55GFR = Quad Density?
   From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
   Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:15:04 +0000
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

  I found a pair of these drives and picked them up since my reference said
that they were quad density drives AND they had DS-QD disks in them.
However I looked on the net and found that everyone including Teac's site
says that they are HD (1.2Mb) drives. Which are they? I THINK these have a
jumper that chages the speed from 360 RPM to 300RPM. Will this make the
drive a QD drive? I thought the heads needed to be differnt since the
magnetic media on the disks have different permeability.

    Joe 
TEAC FD-55GFR aka DEC RX33.

Quad density/1.2mb PC drive.  QD term is appled to any drive that
does 96TPI two sided normal rotation speed(300rpm).  The Teac can 
also do the abnormal(360rpm) PC speed and there are both jumpers 
and pins on the edge connector to control that.

Good solid drive that is very flexible.  I have a bunch I kept 
as they cant be beat with a big stick.

Allison