6 Nov
2001
6 Nov
'01
11:22 a.m.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Allison wrote:
> Standard CP/M on 8" is the right bios but.... The right media
> as the MDS controller was SD/D2... single density(normal ibm
> 128 byte sectors) and D2 was double density by m2fm and
> incompatable with everything except Intel. So you need
> another working intel box user.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Don Maslin wrote:
I am told that a WD1793 based controller can read
M2FM. Have not tried
it myself, though. Did not Altos use such a format with their MP/M
disks?
Although they may have had many more unique formats than I'm aware of, I
have seen quite a few Altos MP/M diskettes that were very ordinary 96TPI
MFM, (and readable with a 765)
Does anyone have a good refernce to the internal details of M2FM?
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