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 17:02:06
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