8-inch disk drives

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Jul 23 22:35:01 2003

> > 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".

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Nico de Jong wrote:
> This is definitely not true.
> I've read and written IBM 3740 SSSD disks, and read DSDD (1024 bytes)
THAT is why it was in quotes. Because it was a SOFTWARE problem, being
presented as a hardware one. Neither the MicroSolutions, nor generic PC
floppy controllers can do anything special without special software, and
neither are limited to "512 bytes and only DOS file systems" except as an
issue of software.


> And "Uniform" (the
> > software package from MicroSolutions) does NOT do Minc.
> ---
> Correct. It is mostly CP/M AFAIR

The MicroSolutions floppy controller (Compaticard) is a very nice one, but
it won't help with Minc any more than a generic controller.
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 22:35:01 BST