Were the 8280's the ones with the Tandon Thinline mechanism? Those use DC motors, and actually do shut off when not needed. On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:40 AM Francesco Messineo < francesco.messineo@gmail.com> wrote: > For sure, Olivetti P6060's 8" floppy drives would start rotating as > soon as it was powered on and stop rotating when powered off. That's > my only recollection of 8" floppies in real life. It was in the early > '80s of course. > > Frank > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 4:33 PM Rob Clarke <crock@clarke-family.org.uk> > wrote: > > > > Hey Michau, > > > > Are you sure about that? Fairly certain my 8280 stops. It spins when you > > insert the disk, and for some time after accessing it, but I think it > > stops again afterwards. Maybe we have different ROM versions? > > > > Rob > > > > On 07/01/2019 16:12, Michał Pleban wrote: > > > groepaz@gmx.net wrote: > > > > > >> i remember weird things with motor-signal and disk-ready.... but > forgot the > > >> details, too long ago. and i still have to figure out how to jumper > the 8" > > >> drive i got =P > > > 8" disk drive motors do not stop when started once. The idea that the > > > disk should stop spinning and start again when needed came only with > > > 5.25" drives. > > > > > > You can see it on the 8280 drive, once you access the disk it never > > > stops rotating (which is quite annoying IMHO). > > > > > > Regards, > > > Michau. > > > > > > > > > > > > >Received on 2019-01-07 17:02:33
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