8-inch drive substitutes

[Chuck Guzis]

On 20 Oct 2006 at 11:45, David Griffith wrote:

> I recently sold a Qumetrak 842 8-inch floppy drive to a fellow who's
> restoring a CMI vintage synthesizer.  He says that this particular model
> is what the synth uses.  Can anyone think of a reason why he couldn't use
> some other model of drive as long as it's capable of reading DSDD media?

Seek rate can vary all over the place with 8" drives.  I think the 
842 will handle either 6 or 8 ms track-to-track, but others may 
require as much as 30 msec.

--Chuck