From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: [KOLLAR: drive info] Article-I.D.: ucb.1437 Posted: Mon Jun 28 03:58:00 1982 Received: Tue Jun 29 07:56:11 1982 >From W8SDZ@Mit-Mc Mon Jun 28 03:57:50 1982 Date: 27 Jun 1982 1201-EDT From: KOLLAR at CMU-20C To: w8sdz Re: drive info Keith, I should send this message to 'Bob Safranek' at 'ucbvax!pue-ee!rjs' (if I only knew how to get MM to do it). This notice on the CPM bboard was info on 'ollivetti' drives. Could you foreward this to him. Thanks in advance. I purchased a 'new' 8" SD floppy drive (made by CDC) for $175 from a company called 'Meshna' '(617) 595-2275'. The drive works great but there is a catch. The motor for the drive requires 220v @50 HZ . The fix is: (1) they send you a step up transformer 115 to 230 which works just fine. (2) the pulley on the drive is reversable one side is 50HZ and the other is 60HZ. So all you do is flip it arround. The last catch is that the 50 pin (io) edge connector is different from the Sugart. I solved this by hacking the traces on the drive (once I knew it worked) so that the signals now go to the 'right' place on the 50 pin io connector. The DC voltages of the drive are 24v@1.3A and 5v@.8A. Also if you find a problem (before you hack the traces on the drive) you can send the pc board on the drive back to Meshna and they will send you a new one. The controler I have is a Versa Floppy I (old but good). If you dont mind the hacking to get it working you can't match the price $175. Good luck to all, N3BEZ