On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Allison wrote:
> > > Standard CP/M on 8" is the right bios but.... The right media
> > > as the MDS controller was SD/D2... single density(normal ibm
> > > 128 byte sectors) and D2 was double density by m2fm and
> > > incompatable with everything except Intel. So you need
> > > another working intel box user.
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Don Maslin wrote:
> > I am told that a WD1793 based controller can read M2FM. Have not tried
> > it myself, though. Did not Altos use such a format with their MP/M
> > disks?
I should have noted that I was referring to 8" diskettes.
- don
> Although they may have had many more unique formats than I'm aware of, I
> have seen quite a few Altos MP/M diskettes that were very ordinary 96TPI
> MFM, (and readable with a 765)
>
>
> Does anyone have a good refernce to the internal details of M2FM?
>
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