hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Nov 8 13:47:03 2001

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Wouter de Waal wrote:

> Hi again
>
> I for one ran an Apple ][ (clone) with two floppies and a monitor
> on top of the box, for a long long time, and the only problems
> I had was when the one-shots in the drive (how's that for a (belated)
> thread merge? :-) drifted so far that disks from one drive wouldn't
> read on the other.
>
> And yes, I still have the system, and it still reads the disks.
>
> I owe Tony an apology:
>
> >Why suspect the FDC? This soulds like nothing more than a shorted or
> >leaky keyswitch. Have yoy taken the keyboard apart to check for this yet.
>
> I found the correct pins for "Enter" and the floppy tries to
> read the disk... I made a disk on the peecee but I since found out
> that peecees can't make SD disks... time to go find an old XT
> disk controller (I have a few :-) and gippo it to read and write
> SD.
>
> Seeya
>
> Wouter in digest mode
>

You might also look for and try the FDCs that use the 37C65 chip by WD
and others. Also the NS8473 cards.
                                                 - don
Received on Thu Nov 08 2001 - 13:47:03 GMT