4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
7:38 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
If you mean the index/sector-hole detector on the drive, the answer is
yes. A chap that I just sent some N* disks to says that his Horizon
contains Tandon TM100-2A drives which are just what were used in the
IBM PC/XT series, although rebadged. They read his hard-sector disks
quite nicely.
I believe it was, and they will.
- don
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From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm@cts.com]
I am unaware of such a thing as a hard sectored
drive. It is a
controller function.
So the sector holes are in exactly the same place as the index hole? Change the
controller card - and the operating system to
support it. It
has been done.
I imagined it may have... especially with what I've seen done to a Northstar. :)
> Actually you might be able to get by with it
in a high density
> drive, given some way of attaching the disk to the "spindle" of the
> drive, and provided that you didn't really want to keep the disk
> anyway (or possibly the drive!), and if you were willing to write
> mind-numbingly useless special-purpose software. Otherwise, I hear
> that CompatiCard will drive an 8" floppy ;)
As will a conventional AT FDC. Trouble is, most
of them won't
read/write single-density (FM). However, some of the XT class clone
controllers with an onboard BIOS and selectable BIOS address
will drive
an 8" drive and do both FM and MFM.
I think it was Fred in a previous post who said that CompatiCard would
indeed do FM, but it's early and I'm too lazy to check right now. :) Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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