Yup; I think I've got a couple of each type somewhere; don't recall who the other ones were, but two are definitely Canon.
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 3:22 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> 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. > > On Sun, 13 Aug 2023, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > Theoretically it could be done with only 2 motors--one spindle motor and > > one positioner. Probably not the best for performance, but doable. > > ISTR that one of the "Dual" 5.25" floppy drives worked that way. > It might even have been Canon; there were two models, one with separate > positioners, and one sharing a single positioner. > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
