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- Howdy..feeling lousy, could not sleep, head splitting, nose plugged, ears
- snappy..so I tinkered around..now is 4:15 am...been studying disk drives, call-
- ing BBs and found below at CC BB and downloaded that. Studied the TEAC manual
- to find out why Elephant disk did not work and think I found out. The drives
- operate on two methods, MF and MFM, whatever they mean. MF is lower or 40 tracks
- and MFM is higher or 80 tracks. I compared them with TEAC55B and TEAC55F and
- came upon interesting information.
-
- On B, Capacity (Kbytes), FM=163.84, MFM=327.68 and on F, FM=327.68, MFM=655.36.
- You can see that 163.84 has shifted from MF to MFM in F. Looks like the two
- drives are very different animals and can't talk to each other. With this info,
- I am going to try experement with your TEAC45B and my drives and see If I can
- arrive at something. Failing this, it means we wont be able to exchange disks
- unless we config a disk to KAYPRO II and copy from those. Cheerios Motty
-
- Drive Jumpering for the SB180
-
- Tandon 65-2 and Canon 211 drives don't work on the SB180.
-
-
- 5.25" 48tpi drives:
-
- TEAC FD-55B-20-U : ML,UR,DSx
- TEAC FD-55B-01-U : HM,SM,UR,PM,DSx
- TEAC FD-55B-01-U (other one) : HM,ST,DSx
- TEAC FD-55BV-06-U : HL,RY,DSx
- TEAC FD-55BV-36-U : HL,RY,DSx
-
- Matsushita JA-551-3 : DSx,DS,+WP,MM,IU
- Matsushita JA-551-045 : DSx,DS,WP,MM,DR,RD,RY
-
- Shugart SA450 : DSx,DS,MM,IU
- Shugart SA455-3CAE : DSx,DS,+WP,MM,IU
-
- Mitsubishi M4851-112U : DSx,2S,MM,HM
-
-
- 5.25" 96tpi drives:
-
- TEAC FD-55F-03-U : HM,SM,UR,PM,DSx
-
-
- 8" drives:
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- Shugart SA851 : DSx,850,2S,Z,A,B,I,R,IW,
- S2,IT,C,RS,HLL,M,NF
-
-
- The following configurations were submitted by SB180 users
- and have not been verified by Micromint:
-
- 5.25" 48tpi drives:
-
- Qume 542 : HM,DSx,HL
-
- 5.25" 96tpi drives:
-
- Mitsubishi M4853 : HM,MM,H2,R3,DSx
-
- 8" drives:
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- Shugart SA801 : DSx,800,A,B,C,Z,DS,L
- Shugart 860-1 : DSx,MS,Z,MD,SR,S2,2S,B,A
-
- Qume 842 : DSx,2S,A,B,C,D,Y,R,I
-
-
- Notes:
-
- 1) The DSx entry used throughout signifies the appropriate drive
- select option for the location of the drive in your system.
- Most drives have either DS0,DS1,DS2,DS3 or DS1,DS2,DS3,DS4.
- 2) The terminator pack, if present, should be installed on the
- drive physically at the end of the cable only. It should be
- removed from all other drives on the system.
-