Fairlight-CMI

I was hesitant to buy "new" 8"drives for the risk of them getting knocked out of alignment or damaged during schipment.

I hope we all can share the fruits of your labour soon.
This could very well be a historic moment for all series II(X) users : )

Thanks a million,
David


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dkevefnzs" <dkevefnzs@...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> this is just to note that I've successfully replaced the 8" drives on the CMI II with 3.5" drives. 8" disks can directly be copied to 3.5" as long as one drive of either size is attached.
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> I guess the same mod should also work on a CMI IIx. It has one tiny limitation from technical perfection, but in practice, has performed flawlessly in my system.
> 
> And... with the CMI II positioned in a "tower" orientation with the floppy drives on the upper end, I left the top (former right) panel unscrewed and placed both 3.5" drives right under that hood. Lifting the panel I can easily change disks - and putting it back in place, apart from the missing noise and blinkenlights off the old drives (and the cessation of my involvement in 8" disk ebay-auctions), you shouldn't notice a difference :-)
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> I'm wondering if anyone else should be interested in this mod. If so, please send me a message - however, I'm probably busy till mid June and don't check my yahoo account very often, so please allow me some time to respond.
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> Thank you & cheers, js
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