DSD Diags disk found

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Feb 8 21:39:38 CST 2009


On 8 Feb 2009 at 18:50, Peter C. Wallace wrote:

> cheap trick would be to just microstep the head positioner
> probably good to 1/4-1/8 of a track (if the leadscrew/band is that good)
> might need to approach from one side only because of leadscrew-nut backlash

Now that I think about it, one of the Drivetec 5.25" floppy drives 
would be well-suited to this, with only a bit of reprogramming of the 
6800-family microcontroller.  Positioning with two steppers--coarse 
and fine.

Cheers,
Chuck




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