18 Jul
2002
18 Jul
'02
6:38 a.m.
Doc Shipley wrote:
So let me get this straight. I have a 128D, with an
external 1541.
Assuming that the 6-pin DIN male-male cable that came with it is right,
I can format a DSDD floppy in the 1541, and read files from a 360k DOS
floppy to the Commodore-formatted disk.
AFAIK, that would work, but I'd probably stay in a DSDD format to get
more room for files. The native 1541 GCR recording is single sided
only. For all practical purposes yo should have 2 1571 type drives for
cp/m. And keep in mind that the 1541 is slower than molasses in January
for data output.
In my googling for the pinout of the above-mentioned cable, I came
across some plans & software to attach a 1541 drive to a PCs parallel
port. Has anybody tried it?
Doc
Is that the X1541 cable and software? Haven't tried it yet.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO