8-inch disk drives

From: Nico de Jong <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
Date: Wed Jul 23 19:03:01 2003

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Cc: <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>


> The MicrosSolutions Floppy controller (Compaticard) IS an 8bit ISA PC 1.2M
> controller.
> THE ONLY difference is SOFTWARE!
> It ALSO will "only recognize 512 byte sectors and
> only DOS file systems".

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This is definitely not true. 
I've read and written IBM 3740 SSSD disks, and read DSDD (1024 bytes)
 And "Uniform" (the
> software package from MicroSolutions) does NOT do Minc.
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Correct. It is mostly CP/M AFAIR
Nico

Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 19:03:01 BST