The worm seemed to be searching for the natural frequency of the lever which carried the magnetic heads.
But instead of using a magnetic head in the drive to make the changes, the magnets are built into the disk itself.
Standard 8mm had the stripe between the perforations and the edge of the film which made good contact with a magnetic head problematic.
But a move to a different type of magnetic head that began in 1999 and was completed in 2001 seemed to reduce the problems significantly.
The magnetic head touches the recording surface, as it does in a normal floppy drive.
The sound of moving magnetic heads may be heard in the recorded video when recording in quiet environment.
The first generation of machines used a magnetic head, like those in audio cassette players, to read the ink on a dollar bill.
Once the surface reaches a particular temperature, a magnetic head moves across the media, changing the polarity of the particles as needed.
Inside this box is the magnetic head from a tape deck, recalibrated somehow to read the digital information on the back of bank cards.
If no micro chip is placed on the card, the transaction goes directly above the magnetic head.