floppy low level format question

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Tue Jun 15 15:10:50 2004

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 17:10, Tony Duell wrote:

> I have a Micromation Doubler in my CASU Super C (S100 bus CP/M machine).
> >From what I rmemeber the single-density (FM) format is standard, and can
> read/write IBM3740 disks. The double density format, though, is probably
> unique to this card.

The Doubler! I forgot about that!! You're right of course, the DD format
for the DOubler was it's downfall, it was built for 128 byte sectors,
period, and being all-hardware wasn't programmable. WD chips killed it I
guess.

 
> > You can probably do all this in a PC sound card these days!
>
> Not many sound cards will handle 500kHz signals, surely?

Who knows! What was once impossible is now routine, or worse, obsolete
:-)
Received on Tue Jun 15 2004 - 15:10:50 BST