6 Feb
2009
6 Feb
'09
1:48 p.m.
On Friday (02/06/2009 at 01:29PM -0800), Fred Cisin wrote:
In making a 3.5" drive for H80 and N*, is there any compelling reason to
NOT use older drives? (does it have to be less than 1/2" thick?)
Could a combo 3.5" and 5.25" drive be modified to do hard sector 5.25"?
(thus adding 3.5" without losing 5.25" and still fitting stock mounting
locations)
If I can generate these fake index pulses with a circuit that sits between
the drive and the controller, then I figured I could use the approach for
either 3.5" or 5.25". You would conceivably add this adapter between
the original 5.25" drive and controller and then start using 5.25"
soft sector floppies instead of the hard sectored ones.
The really smart guy would have the adapter figure out if an original
hard sector media was in the drive and pass the index pulses straight
through vs. a soft sector media in the drive which then gets the index
pulses faked. Now you can easily copy your stuff from original media
to new even if you have only one drive.
Chris