3.5" floppy failure mode? Hub not attched to media.

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Feb 28 12:43:36 CST 2015


On 02/28/2015 10:14 AM, Mike Stein wrote:

> Are you saying that it actually stepped in and out
> during a rotation to follow the eccentricity?

I'm saying that it's very unlikely that it did.  The OEM manual makes no 
reference to such behavior.  So, getting on-track was likely a matter of 
reading an embedded servo mark or two, tweaking the "fine" stepper and 
signaling end-of-seek.

--Chuck


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