Interest in Teac FD235J drives and FC-1 boards?

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Tue Jan 23 22:14:28 CST 2018


> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> I've got a fellow with a stock of Teac FD235J (2.88) drives and about a
>> dozen bare Teac FC-1 SCSI boards.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
> I'm interested, if the drives can be used for imaging 2.88 media (a la
> IBM, etc).  Probably not so much the SCSI boards - the drives seem to
> have regular 34-pin interfaces, if I'm looking at the right photos.

Be aware that you will also need a different controller, or some minor 
modifications.

PC controllers normally support 250,000 bits per second ("360K", "720K"),
and 500,000 bits per second ("1.2M, "1.4M")
SOMETIMES 125,000 bits per second for 5.25" SD/FM.

2.8M runs at 1,000,000 bits per second.

Such controllers exist, but are not very common.


Can Catweasel/kryoflux handle that data transfer rate?



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