System/36 whining and begging...

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Jan 26 14:57:00 2003

> Has anyone gotten an 8"
> floppy operating under an Intel based Linux host.

Yes. And some software to read 8" disks and save them as DMK-format
images may be found at:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmklib/

I haven't yet written code to drive DMK images back to disk, but I
think there's already software that can do it. For more information
see:

    http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80resources.html

Note that many PCs have floppy controllers that can't read and write
single density (FM) disks. If you have such a PC, you might need
to buy a different controller, such as a Catweasel:

    http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/hardware/accelerators/catweaselpci.html

I suspect (but am far from certain) that System/36 disks are probably
double density (MFM), which PCs should have no trouble with.

To hook up the 8-inch drive to the PC, you'll need an adapter such
as John Wilson's FDADAP:

    http://www.dbit.com/fdadap.html
Received on Sun Jan 26 2003 - 14:57:00 GMT