At 01:34 PM 9/20/02 -0700, Don wrote:
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>On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Joe wrote:
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>> I was scrounging around last week and found a pair of HH 5 1/4"
>> floppy drives that are marked "2.4" next to a disk symbol on the
>> front. Just out of curiousity I picked them up and checked
>> <http://marina.mfarris.com/floppy/Hitachi.html> and sure enough
>> they're 2.4Mb floppy drives! I've never heard of these before. Does
>> anyone know what the disk format is or where these are used? The
>> drives are Hitachi model FD532EIU. The label on them says that they're
>> made for IBM. They're in some sort of a plastic sled.
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>Do these drives have the typical single stepper to position the heads,
>Joe, or is there an additional "vernier stepper" to more closely
>position them as was the case with the Drivetec and (later) Kodak
>drives? Both of those required preformatted disks that contained servo
>tracks.
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Don,
No it's looks like just a single stepper motor. I found a diskette in one of htem. It appears to be a standard disk. More about that in reponse to Will's message.
Joe
Received on Tue Sep 24 2002 - 13:30:01 BST