Re: 9114s Message #10 Posted by Tony Duell (UK) on 22 Feb 2002, 8:05 p.m., in response to message #9 by David Smith
You're absolutely right about covering the hole, at least on the 9114A (I can't be bothered to take by B apart tonight). I've just looked at a spare Sony disk drive for the 9114A,
and the disk inserted sensor pin is in just the right place to end up in the HD hole. So the drive will think it has no disk at all if the hole is uncovered.
However, I still won't use them. The coercivity is wrong, period. It may work on some units, it may not be reliable, it may not work at all on others. My data is worth a lot more than that. Over here, 720K disks are easy to obtain (just as well, I have one machine that uses HD disks, and a dozen that use DD ones...)
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