8' drive on PC troubleshooting

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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Eric Smith wrote:

> Sellam asks about 8-inch disk drives:
> > Are there any drives that don't require such a modification of the stepper
> > table?  I'm not sure what drives I'm using.  They're mounted in an
> > enclosure and I'm too lazy to dismount them to check.
>
> IIRC, half-height 8-inch drives typically supported much faster step rates
> than the full-height drives.

Ok, now the details start coming out.  From the information I could find
on the web and the discussions here, the common wisdom was that you just
make the right cable and everything just works.  Ha.

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