Re: 3174 disks

"Dave McGuire [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Jul 2019 00:00:57 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
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On 7/8/19 11:52 PM, Al Kossow [email protected] [hercules-390] wrote:
>>> But how does it know if it’s a 2.4MB disk....
>>
>> That's a very good question. I don't know of any other little notches
>> or anything else in the 2.4MB media that would allow the drive to detect
>> it. (I don't have one in front of me, they're all around the corner in
>> the museum)
> 
> One of the things on my todo list is to put a logic analyzer on a 2.4meg
> drive and see what happens when you put 1.2 or 2.4 meg media into a drive
> 
> Dave, if you could spare some media, I'd like to get a couple to experiment
> on so I don't have to risk the ones that I bought.

  Of course.  Please send me your shipping address offline.  I also have
drives; would one of those be helpful?

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA