Malvineous
Experienced Member
Hi all,
I just stumbled across this forum and it looks really interesting! The reason I am here is that I have obtained an 8" floppy drive and I would like to see if I can hook it up to a modern PC so that I have a method of reading old 8" disks.
The drive is a Shugart 800-2 and I found the manual on bitsavers.org, which tells me I need to power it with 240VAC (!) and 24V, 5V and -5V DC. Is there anything I need to be aware of when powering up this drive, or can I just get a 24V supply and a couple of voltage regulators and all will be good?
It looks like I can use an FDADAP to connect it up to a standard PC floppy controller (assuming said controller supports 8" drives.)
Does this all sound right? I'd hate to break it because there were some tricks I wasn't aware of!
I just stumbled across this forum and it looks really interesting! The reason I am here is that I have obtained an 8" floppy drive and I would like to see if I can hook it up to a modern PC so that I have a method of reading old 8" disks.
The drive is a Shugart 800-2 and I found the manual on bitsavers.org, which tells me I need to power it with 240VAC (!) and 24V, 5V and -5V DC. Is there anything I need to be aware of when powering up this drive, or can I just get a 24V supply and a couple of voltage regulators and all will be good?
It looks like I can use an FDADAP to connect it up to a standard PC floppy controller (assuming said controller supports 8" drives.)
Does this all sound right? I'd hate to break it because there were some tricks I wasn't aware of!