SOL floppy subsystem options

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Sep 7 18:06:15 2000

From: Bill Sudbrink <bills_at_adrenaline.com>


>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


Most likely a Northstar* MDS, Helios and maybe Icom FDOS
there are toehrs but those were "of era".

>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.


Keep in mind a SOL is 2mhz 8080 and without a DMA
based FDC 8" double density is not easily done. It will
do 5.25 double density however.

Allison

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Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 18:06:15 BST