Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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This is the Pinout from the Hitachi Manual for the Drive.
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https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipN ... hieUE3VEJR

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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Dear Joe

Thank you so much for the pinout ... very useful!

If you are able to connect the FDD-412A drive to Standard 34 Pin IDC Connector I am very interested. Please let me know about your solution!
Until now I am not able to handle the data separator pins ...

Thx Martin

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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For the 34 pin connector one needs to know if the FDD412A drive jumpered for RD or VFO?

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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Unfortunately, I don't have any manuals for the FDD-412A drive or the controller, and I was not able to find anything on the Internet. So any more detailed description would be welcome!
Here is our current jumper assignment in the Okuma Campus 5000 systems:
Okuma Campus 5000 Jumper Settings
Okuma Campus 5000 Jumper Settings
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Thank you for your help!

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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So my question is which set of jumpers are currently working in the Campus 5000?
The jumpers marked "original" or "maoles"???
And where did you get the other jumper settings?
I'm confused as you have a VFO drive, and are using RD jumper settings in one example and VFO jumper settings in the other.

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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Sorry for the confusion! :o
The drives connected to the Campus 5000 are using the Master jumper settings!
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The Original jumper settings are not uesd in our system setup!

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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My final goal is to emulate/replace the Hitachi FDD-412A 8" floppy drives with my HxC Floppy Emulators (either SD or Gotek)!

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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Your "Master" configuration is VFO.

It will require a VFO board for the HxC to work with the controller.

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joeyd wrote:
Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:59 am
Your "Master" configuration is VFO.

It will require a VFO board for the HxC to work with the controller.
I still have some VFO boards here. These was made some years ago to connect the standard/classic SD HxC on some specific NEC PC98 computers needing the VFO signals. I think that they should work too here to replace this drive.

Another path is to use the Pauline dumper/floppy drive simulator : The floppy simulation is based on an FPGA and the VFO signals are generated by the drive simulator :

https://sourceforge.net/p/hxcfloppyemu/ ... ine/trunk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZiyms6lo4U
https://sourceforge.net/p/hxcfloppyemu/ ... format=raw

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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joeyd wrote:
Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:59 am
Your "Master" configuration is VFO.

It will require a VFO board for the HxC to work with the controller.
Thank you joeyd! I will have a closer look on this as soon as possible ...
If you can share some more details about the Hitachi FDD-412A jumper settings (meanings of each jumper) this would be useful :)

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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Jeff wrote:
Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:00 pm
joeyd wrote:
Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:59 am
Your "Master" configuration is VFO.

It will require a VFO board for the HxC to work with the controller.
I still have some VFO boards here. These was made some years ago to connect the standard/classic SD HxC on some specific NEC PC98 computers needing the VFO signals. I think that they should work too here to replace this drive.

Another path is to use the Pauline dumper/floppy drive simulator : The floppy simulation is based on an FPGA and the VFO signals are generated by the drive simulator :

https://sourceforge.net/p/hxcfloppyemu/ ... ine/trunk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZiyms6lo4U
https://sourceforge.net/p/hxcfloppyemu/ ... format=raw
Thank you Jeff! I will take the VFO Boards in consideration ...

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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The VFO board :

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I can provide the schematic if needed.

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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Jeff wrote:
Mon Sep 28, 2020 8:28 pm
The VFO board :

Image

I can provide the schematic if needed.
Yes, please! VFO board image and schematic would be welcome!
How many boards are on stock? Do they have a price tag?

Regards, Martin

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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Only a few (4 or 5). Where are you based ?

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Re: Hitachi FDD-412A 8 inch floppy drive

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197 / 5000
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hi, if you managed to get the emulator to work, i want to buy one of these, i have okuma lb12 lathe with osp, year 1987, used this 8 inch reader, wait for your reply thanks

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