help! shugart 801

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Jul 23 16:46:00 2003

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Joe wrote:

< SNIP >

> Thanks for the suggestions. BTW do you have any doc for the Siemans
> drives? A friend of mine just bought a couple of them. They were sold to
> him as Shugart drives but they weren't. Now he's trying to figure out how
> to use them in place of Shugarts.

Joe, the only thing that I could find on Siemens 8" drives is this
rather ancient bit from Fritz Chwolka in February '96. (I have a
hunch from the header that it dates back to Bill Blue's 'pnet' on
his (then) CTS.COM. I am unsure whether this will help your
friend or not since I don't know what model drive he has.

                                                - don

                                SIEMENS

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From: fritz_chwolka_at_AC.CyberCity.de (FRITZ CHWOLKA)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re> Siemens 8"drive
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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 1996 23:28:44 +0100
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Hi..
this sheet was shown in the c't 1987, subscription #7, page 176.
.
+------+--------------------+-----------------------------+
| | | |
| BUS- | Siemens | Shugart |
| PIN | FD 100-8 D | SA 810/860 |
+------+--------------------+-----------------------------+
| 2 | - | Ext. Wrt. Current |
| | | switching (opt) |
| 4 | - | - |
| 6 | - | - |
| 8 | - | True Ready (opt) |
| 10 | - | Two Sided (opt) |
| 12 | Disk change | Disk change (opt) |
| 14 | - | Side select |
| 16 | In Use | In Use (opt) |
| 18 | HDLD | Moto On / head load |
| 20 | Index | Index |
| 22 | Ready | Ready |
| 24 | Sector | Sector |
| 26 | Select 0 | Driver select1/side select |
| 28 | Select 1 | Driver select2/side select |
| 30 | Select 2 | Driver select3/side select |
| 32 | Select 3 | Driver select4/side select |
| 34 | Step in | Directory select/side sel. |
| 36 | Step | Step |
| 38 | Wrt. Data | Write DATA |
| 40 | Write | Write Gate |
| 42 | Track 0 | Track 0 |
| 44 | WRT.Protect | Write Protect |
| 46 | Raw Data | read data |
| 48 | sep. data(opt) | sep data |
| 50 | sep. clock(opt) | sep clock |
+------+--------------------+-----------------------------+
| type | SS , 8" 77track | SS / DS , 8" 77track |
+------+--------------------+-----------------------------+
.
This is the only information I have...for the moment.
For other drive I have prints but not for the Siemens.
I hope this helps , instead I didn't read the original
letter.
I have some old Siemens CP/M-systems with 8"diskdrives
and 10MB Harddisk but they have an Shugart DS/DD 8" disk
inside.
Greetings
Fritz Chwolka
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 16:46:00 BST