21 Sep
2014
21 Sep
'14
11:31 a.m.
On 09/21/2014 09:29 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
I have a KryoFlux that I can hook up to a Tandon
TM848E drive. Maybe
Ali and I should meet at an SBUX some weekend for a disk imaging
party? :) Keir Fraser (author of
https://github.com/keirf/Disk-Utilities ) has been pretty responsive
about adding support for new disk formats, so there's a good chance
of being able to convert KryoFlux images into something more portable
like ImageDisk files and/or being able to write out the images... if
Disk Utilities can't already do that for the System/23 floppies, Keir
may be willing and able to add the support to do so.
I don't understand the need for special hardware. Any PC capable of
reading/writing FM and MFM should handle it. IBM 8" floppies in
particular are pretty plain-Jane. A PC with a qualifying FDC in it
should work with an 8" drive with no problems. The first track will
usually have 26x128 FM-encoded sectors with DDMs, the remainder will
either be FM or MFM with nothing special.
Dave Dunfield's IMD should work just fine.
--Chuck