On 8/13/23 09:43, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > Yes, absolutely. One spindle motor, with a floppy hub on each end, and > two heads on one voice coil positioner, one for each floppy. I had one > of those. The performance improvement was VERY marginal. I had to take > out the solenoid that lifted the pad that loaded the media against the > head, the timing of the head loading somehow was all wrong and allowed > it to start writing before the pad had fully loaded.
Theoretically it could be done with only 2 motors--one spindle motor and one positioner. Probably not the best for performance, but doable. --Chuck
