Writing 8" floppies with SuperCard Pro

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Wed Aug 12 15:26:29 CDT 2015


On 08/12/2015 01:05 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Some drives, like the Mitsubishi M2896-63, can be configured to
> suppress the READY output if the second side of a single-sided disk
> is selected, or to ignore the sidedness of the medium.  Mitsubishi
> refers to this as "Ready Standard" vs. "Ready Modified".

...and others, such as the Siemens FDD-100 (single sided) will output an 
"illegal medium" signal if double-sded floppies are inserted.

--Chuck










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