8' drive on PC troubleshooting

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Tue Mar 1 15:57:53 CST 2005


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.

Eric



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