4 Apr
2012
4 Apr
'12
1:06 p.m.
Jeffrey Brace wrote:
> I was considering buying KryoFlux to read and
write Commodore disks. Has anyone done this ? From what I gather you just get the board
and you can get the floppy cable and a power supply and power cord. But you need to buy a
HD PC floppy drive and then can read the Commodore disks. That is Commodore 1541 disks.
Does this sound right ?
Dan Gahlinger wrote:
An HD PC floppy drive will *NOT* read commodore 1541
disks.not a chance in hell.
Sure it will. I've done it successfully on multiple
occasions.
PC drives are MFM, commodore are not. totally
incompatible.
The drive doesn't know MFM from FM, M2FM, GCR, or many other encodings
that could exist on a diskette. Only the controller in the PC is
limited to MFM and FM, and there are even ways around that; people have
successfully read Apple II floppies with the PC controller.
Unfortunately he trick used for that won't work for Commodore disks.
However, Jeffrey was talking about hooking up the drive to a KyroFlux,
not to a PC controller.