8" drive variations

[Chuck Guzis]

On 13 Mar 2007 at 17:59, dwight elvey wrote:

> The biggest issue I see is density and number of sides. As I
> recall, the two sided have a different location for the index
> hole( at least I think it is the sides, not density ). The SA800
> and SA900's are single sided single density drives.

That's correct--DS media has the index aperture at about the 2 
o'clock position, where SS media has the aperture at about 1 o'clock. 
Some drives will happily write and read both sides of SS media; 
others will disable access to the second side.

All of which is why I said that a SA850-compatible drive will 
probably do the job just fine and have signals that a PeeCee 
controller can deal with.

Cheers,
Chuck