SOL floppy subsystem options

From: Mike Noel <Mike-Noel_at_GCI.net>
Date: Thu Sep 7 14:04:20 2000

Closely related question -

I have a N* controller (attached to a pair of N* drives) attached to a
SOL. I think the controller and drives work (they appear to boot an NOS
disk but nothing happens on the screen) but I haven't been able to find
doc on configuring NOS for SOL. Anyone have that or able to explain
what I have to do?


Bill Sudbrink wrote:
>
> Hopefully, in the next week or two, I'm going to be
> getting a SOL. In anticipation of this, I'm wondering
> what floppy interfaces one might expect to find in
> a SOL. The one I'm getting does not have a floppy card
> in it. Looking around, I see that some people have
> NorthStars in theirs. I have a spare N* floppy controller,
> but I'd rather not go this route as the hard sectored
> media is difficult to find. I'll have to inventory my
> S-100 cards... I know I have a couple of Cromemcos 4FDC
> and 16FDC cards. Would someone have put one of these in
> a SOL? I'm not asking if it can be made to work. I'm
> trying to get a sense of whether it's appropriate or if
> it would be like putting a SoundBlaster32 with 16 Megs
> of memory in an original 6MHz PC-AT with a 512K
> motherboard.
Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 14:04:20 BST