13 Jan
2014
13 Jan
'14
2:12 a.m.
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Terry Stewart wrote:
Chuck,
Thanks! I was hoping there would be a solution like that. I can remove a
drive from the Panasonic and use that.
Just a technical point though. What would be the correct BIOS choice to
make the PC hardware recognise the drive, as my BIOS doesn't (and probably
no PC BIOS doesn't) list an 8 inch drive. The selection is 5.25 inch 360k
or 5.25 inch 1.2MB or 3.5 inch (1.44MB)?
In general, an 8" drive corresponds reasonably well to a "1.2M"
5.25".
In fact, the "1.2M" was apparently intended to be an 8" drop-in
replacement. The first "1.2M" that I got had a 50 pin connector!
Alas, they then deviated a little, so there is still some cabling and
jumpering to contend with.
For reading files off of them, you can presumably ignore some things, such
as "track 43" signal.
These Panasonic drives are double sided and 77 tracks,
and the machine
write data in double density. I'm assuming this means MFM?
Exactly.
For slurping up sectors, ImageDisk will probably do fine.
Then you can manually reassemble files.
I never implemented any of the Panasonic 8"/1.2M formats in XenoCopy.
Check with Chuck about 22Disk.
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