21 Feb
2008
21 Feb
'08
8:57 p.m.
On Thursday 21 February 2008 23:33, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 21 Feb 2008 at 23:18, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I see no reason why not. I haven't gotten so far as looking at any sort of
technical aspects of it yet, though, having only just started to consider
the idea...
It's been some time since I looked at the hardware aspects of drive
interfacing in detail, but I recall one switch on the BBII that had to be
set to select which type of drive, and some jumpers as well, I'll have to
look into just what they fiddle with.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
What I'm probably going to have to do at some
point is decide on a format
I want to use with that BBII. The time I put it together there seemed to
be an assumption that one would be using 8" drives, I think that's what
they gave you the BIOS and their version of CP/M on, but I'd put it in a
box with a couple of 5.25" drives. These days I think perhaps 3.5" HD
floppies might be a better choice since I have so darn many of them (both
disks and drives) on hand here. You can't even find 5.25" drives that
easily any more, never mind 8", and I haven't looked for the media for
them for ages.
Why not run your 3.5" drives at 360 RPM? Then the HD format
corresponds exactly to 8" drives.