BASF 6106 User Manual

SECTION
1
INTRODUCTION
i.i.
GENERAL
This
manual
contains
descriptive
material
and
procedures
to aid
personnel
in
the
installa-
tion,
operation,
maintenance
and
repair of
the
Model
BASF
6106
Mini
Disk
Drive
(Fig.
1
-
"•
)
•
1.2.
RELATED
DOCUMENTATION
Product and
Interface
Specification
80
308-02E
1.3.
DESCRIPTION
The
BASF
6106 Mini
Disk
Drive is
a very
small
random
access
storage
unit,
yhich
utilizes
a
flexible
mini
disk
cartridge
as
storage
sediiaa.
The
flexible
disk is
rotated at
300
RPM yiel-
ding
a data
transfer
rate of
125,000
bits
per
second.
Up
to
125
kBytes of
data
s&ay be
sto-
red on
a
single
recording surface of
the
mini
disk
when
FM data
recording is
used Mien
utilizing
the
BASF data
format
of
16
sectors
-each
with
128
bytes
81,92
kBytes of data may be
re-
corded on
the
40 tracks of
the mini d:;?k. If
a
data
format of
9
sectors each with 256 bytes is
used,
92,16
kBytes
of data
may be
recorded.
The
mini
disk is
driven by
a
DC-
controlled
spindle
drive
motor,
thus no
AC
-
power :s
needed.
The
BASF 6106
uses the
same tunnel
erase
read
/
write
head,
as is
used
in the BASF
6102.
The head is
positioned
with
a
new
four-
phase
DC- stepping
motor
actuator,
utilising
a
spiral
wheel which
gives
precise
location
of
the read/
write head on
the
track.
Applications
for
the
BASF
6106
mini
disk drive
include
woTd
processing
and
text
editing
sys-
tems,
program
storage
for
mini and
micro
com-
puters,
"intelligent"
desktop
calculators
and
the micro
hobby
market.
FIGURE
1
-
1
. MODEL
BASF
6106
MINI
DISK
DRIVE
1
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1

BASF 6106 Specifications

General

Brand	BASF
Model	6106
Category	Floppy Disk Drive
Language	English