DD disks and HD drives (was: Where can I find...)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Sun Jun 25 08:52:54 2000

> Well you left out all the caveats.
>
> I do it all the time, no problem. Key thing is while the drives
> are HD capable (TEAC FD55GFV) I happen to have them
> jumpered as required to properly run DD mode. In this
> mode they are plain DD, DS 96 TP! drives.

Does setting that jumper cause them to write double-tracks,
then (as ISTR that the HD drives wrote tracks that were
half-width, and someone used to sell a software package
that wrote an HD-width track, stepped the head, then
wrote an adjacent HD-width track to create pseudo-DD
tracks)?

Hey, precisely what jumper is that?

-doug q
Received on Sun Jun 25 2000 - 08:52:54 BST