Re: vintage disk drive dilema - to modify or not to modify

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Mike Willegal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The drive speed is good.  The resistance change should help with all 
> types of disks.  I think it improves resistance to random noise.  I 
> tried tweaking alignment, but I can't find a setting that will work for 
> BOTH normal disks and Atarisoft disks.
>
> I guess it's not so much about confusion as the "correctness" of using a 
> drive labeled as Drive 1, as Drive 2.  It's probably not rational, but I 
> just spent a bunch of time recreating a rev 0 board for this system, and 
> that is probably not rational, either.  :-)

Just put post-it notes over the drive markings.

I never used drive markings, since I used to switch physical drives
occasionally.  The drive on the left or on top is *always* drive 1
and the drive on the right or on the bottom is always drive 2.  ;-)

-michael

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