I asked this in another thread somewhere, but it got buried.. :-)
I no longer have a 5 1/4" PC drive.
Now, there's time, since I'm going to be buying one of your interfaces when it comes out, as my soldering skills are passable, but just barely.. :-)
So, I thought I'd start hitting the old electronic stores and looking for drive mechanisms..
Is there anything I should be looking for?
Just any HD 5 1/4" PC floppy drive? I saw something on one of your updated at mentioned heads stopping and not getting to -8, but only -4 or something like that..
Is that probably not a big deal and I should just grab any 5 1/4" HD drive?
I'm not really worried about flippies at this point (where I think the above issue was) and mostly thinking of C64 and Apple II floppies (and eventually Coleco Adam, as I do have one of those drives, which doesn't get much use..).
Thanx,
desiv
p.s. How come I can't order a case of 100 Elephant 5 1/4" DSDD floppies for $35 (OK, I don't remember how much, but it didn't seem like much) like I used to be able to... :-)