RX50's on a PC?

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <aaron_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Fri Oct 16 23:07:02 1998

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:

> What is an RX52 floppy? I'll presume you mean the rather large dual
> drive RX02. The DEC 8" floppies are RX01/2 and have their own internal
> controller. That would make RX01 or 02 disk system very hard to wire
> to a PC floppy controller, like near impossible.

Actually, I guess I meant RX50. When I was using PUTR, it refers to the
DS, DD drive as RX52 (Drives are Mitsubishi 2896's, 1.6meg).

> RX50 drives are fairly easy to wire to a PC it is however single sided
> and dual drive with one spindle. The later item will cause all mannor
> of errors if the driver doesn't internally know the two drives have a
> common positioner. However FD55s jumperd for slow spindle and only
> using one side work better!

Do you have any additional suggestions, now that I've got my drives
straight? I took my wiring cues from the CPM faq, but I don't have much
info beyond the pinouts. I'll go ahead and ask, since I'm already typing,
does anyone have jumper/configuration information for the drives handy? Of
course I'll go on a hunt as soon as I hit "send"...
Received on Fri Oct 16 1998 - 23:07:02 BST