06-28-2024, 03:31 PM
(06-28-2024, 03:01 PM)admin Wrote: That won't work. The upper and lower heads are offset by several tracks. You MUST flip the disk over to read the backside - or use a modified disk drive - there are no exceptions.
That's unfortunate!
(06-28-2024, 03:01 PM)admin Wrote: I have not actually seen any 96 TPI disk drive that can't automatically read the back side of a disk when flipped over, once you have disabled the index pulse requirement with a jumper setting.
I have two working 96 tpi drives and both have no jumpers to disable index pulse requirement; they are Chinon FZ-506 and Teac FD-55GFR. Also, my old 48 tpi Tandon TM100-2A drive refuses to read without index pulses.