8" drive variations

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If you have the old style found on Imsai like the calcomp drives then 
how would you use them on a shugart interface.

Tony Duell wrote:
>>  > Some drives have an onboard FM data separator.
>>
>> Indeed - I think I've come across that before. For drives that have it, can it 
>> typically be disabled?
>>     
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> Normally, you can just ignore it. You still get the 'raw' bitstream on 
> one pin of the interface connector, it's just that the drive tries to do 
> a clock/data serparation assuming it's an FM stream at the standard rate 
> and sends out the sepearated clock and data on 2 other pins. So just use 
> the first, raw, data pin.
>
> -tony
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