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Re: Apple 3.5" drive questions
On 7 Mar 2003, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
|>|>Not really. They do Commodore GCR, which is not the same as Apple GCR.
|>|
|>|However, the Commodore drives are programmable, so there may be
|>|hope for a real hacker. ;-)
|>
|>But the rotational speed of the drive is not user selectable, even if
|>the "width" of a bit (as read or written) is variable according to bit
|>density.
|
|Certainly an impediment (!) for 3.5" disks, but not 5.25".
Well, it would be nice to set the 1541 drive to rotate at 3/4 speed.
There is a screw that you can adjust inside the 1541 that controls
belt tension, and that affects the rotational speed a little bit,
but it just isn't the same thing as actually speeding the drive up,
and slowing the drive down.