<div dir="ltr">ah! I don't think I've ever taken apart a floppy drive.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu" target="_blank">warlord@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> OK. I get the lead drive (top center facing the camera) sound is made by<br>
> driving the head to seek to make tones. The other drives are a zillion years<br>
> old and aren't moving fast enough (to my eye) to make the low tones I'm<br>
> hearing. Start up noises, maybe?<br>
><br>
> heh, heh. talk about "techno" tunes :-)<br>
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</div>They are floppy drives, so they are spinning slower than an HDD. It's<br>
probably a combination of specific sector reads to get the heads to move<br>
appropriately for the various frequencies.<br>
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Man this is a cool hack!<br>
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-derek<br>
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