8-inch disk drives

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Jul 18 11:24:00 2003

> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Jo Cooley wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm new to the list and am currently trying to find a solution to
> > > transfering data/software from 8-inch disks to a pc.
> > > We have a working minc-II with two floppy drives...
> > > One suggestion was to get an old 8-inch floppy drive and hook it
> > > directly to the pc...
> --- Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> wrote:
> > DONE.
> > the 1.2M controller in the PC will operate MOST (those wishing to list
> > obscure exceptions,...) 8" "industry standard" drives, probably including
> > ones borrowed from the minc.
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Umm... Fred, what you may not know is that a MINC-11 comes with an RX02
> floppy drive - definitely not "industry standard" (unless your industry
> is DEC ;-)

You are right, I did NOT know that the Minc used RX02. That was why I had
said "probably".

But I was mostly responding to the "all I have to do is get a drive
connected", and trying to get across the concept that connecting the drive
was trivial, and that it was NOT a matter of a simple device driver, but
writing a file system handler.

> Personally, I'd go with the ASCII console as the easiest path.

I completely agree, particularly since he already has that connected and
working.
Received on Fri Jul 18 2003 - 11:24:00 BST