Tandon TM 100 5 1/4" drives

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Mon Oct 18 15:01:40 1999

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Bill Sudbrink wrote:

> > you didn't say what in particular you were looking for.
>
> Well, they have NorthStar QC tags on them dated 8-4-80.
> I thought that N* tended to be hard sectored and wanted
> to know for sure. There is a little paper tag next to

All the 5.25 floppies (exception of course) are hard/soft sector based on
media used. The NS* could use a raft of different drives from the old
sa400 35tr SS to the 96tpi two sided all of course hard sector.

> the metal tag with a "2A" on it, so I'll assume from Don's
> message that they are 48 TPI double-sided. Nobody has
> said anything so far about hard/soft sectoring...

The drive don't care. It's the media that is important in this case as
soft sector has only one index hole and the hard sector for NS* uses
11 holes(index plus sectors).

Allison
Received on Mon Oct 18 1999 - 15:01:40 BST