8" floppy drive for PC, RS/6000, 68k Mac or Alpha

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun Jan 25 07:54:38 2004

Hi Doc,

   I have a PDF copy of the YD-180 drive if you need it. FWIW in the
General Information section of the manual they state that it's compatible
with the IBM 3740 drive so it should certainly handle that format.

    Joe

At 09:55 PM 1/24/04 -0600, you wrote:
> I want one. I can use a PCI, ISA, EISA, MCA (PS/2 or RS/6k), NuBus
>or QBus adapter. The main requirement is that hardware + software be
>able to low-level format disks to RX02.
>
> I have a YE Data YD-180 drive from an AS/400 that looks brand new.
>According to a couple of comp.os.cpm posts, it's a standard interface
>DSDD 1.2MB drive with DC24V/DC5V input. So far so good, and I have a
>couple of older ISA floppy controllers that should talk to it (right?),
>but I need a controller cable and power pinout for it. For that
>matter, between the DE9 power connector on the IBM sled and the power
>input on the drive itself, there's a small PDB that looks like it might
>be a transformer or step-down. Anybody know what voltage the AS/400
>feeds it? Anybody happen to have an 8" enclosure and PSU they don't
>want?
>
> And, most importantly, that drive *will* format a disk as IBM 3740
>format, right?
>
> I have 3 computers with RX02 drives, about 300 bulk-erased floppies,
>and no way to make the floppies useful in those drives*, and that's
>starting to p_ss me off.
>
>* a couple of places I can trade degaussed disks for formatted at
>varying ratios, and that's probably the cheapest way to go, but that's
>hardly the point, right?
>
>
> Doc
>
>
Received on Sun Jan 25 2004 - 07:54:38 GMT