[Coco] Super Disk; was: Help floppy drive

[Bruce W. Calkins]

There was no physically evident second head (or pair of heads) inside. 
There were two elements on the face of the head I could see without 
destructively disassembling the unit.  (Speculation) The two elements might 
be for the two disk formats.  I could not see anything I could identify as a 
laser.  (But, do I really know what to look for?)  The media has a 
semi-rough texture, like a micro-waffle grid.  I'll take another look and 
perhaps try it out sometime during summer break.  As challenging to 
understand as the chapter on FETs was the details of OpAmps promises to 
equal or exceed.  Finals start in 17 calendar days, just 6 class & two lab 
days.



Bruce W.




>
> Try swapping a 120mb disk and 1.44mb disk to see if, as I had suspected,
> there
> is a head element swap to accommodate the two different media.  Maybe 
> there
> is a laser in there as well...(?)        -ph