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Re: Disk transfers help please



Ed Eastman wrote:
> To the guy who said his drive did not require the index hole, it must
> have something monitoring the flywheel or something else to cause a
> pulse every so often.
>

No, there's no index pulse at all, that's it (I can guarantee it). It's
really not required unless you need to format.

> And I would be curious about the drive model, if it's not too late to ask.
>

Never too late! ;-) I wanted to know it for sure myself, so I took some
time to look inside the computer. The drive is a "Panasonic JU-455-5
AFS". It was extracted directly from a French Thomson TO16
PC-compatible computer.

Vincent Joguin.