[sebhc] Diskette Drives

dwight elvey dkelvey at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 17 23:19:10 CDT 2006




>From: "Barry Watzman" <Watzman at neo.rr.com>
>
>Keep in mind that ANY drive, no matter how out of alignment, can read disks
>that were formatted on that same drive.  The whole point of alignment is to
>make disks interchangeable between drives.
>

Hi
That is what I'm trying to determine.
Dwight

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of
>Carroll Waddell
>Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:07 PM
>To: sebhc at sebhc.org
>Subject: Re: [sebhc] Diskette Drives
>
>dwight elvey wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: Carroll Waddell <carrollwaddell at sc.rr.com>
> >
> > ---snip---
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I was just thinking that maybe the IBM PC is writing with the wrong
> >> head, ie, wrong side. My H8 has the extended configuration option,
> >> which the Siemens drives will ignore. Maybe the PC drive is writing
> >> on the top side rather than the bottom side which is the normal
> >> single sided side.
> >> Carroll
> >> --
> >
> >
> > Hi
> > This is not likely.
> > You didn't make it clear if when on the PC, it could both write and read
> > while on the same machine?
> > If it can, your looking at an alignment issue. If it can't, there is
> > something
> > else wrong with the drive.
> > Dwight
> >
> >
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>Dwight,
>I haven't tried to use the Tandons on an IBM PC. I might try that just
>to see if the drives are really good or bad.
>I've only connected them to the H8.
>CEW
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