11 Jan
2006
11 Jan
'06
1:20 p.m.
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:38 pm, Lyle Bickley wrote:
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 02:33, dave04a at
dunfield.com wrote:
Suggestion to all the folks discussing "Windows" and "Floppy
Controllers".
Don't bother.
I would simplify that:
"Window" -- Don't bother :-)
I second
the thanks!
To a "hints" list I would add that I had some trouble finding a
"good"
floppy controller to use with it. After going through 3 Pentium and 2
486 motherboards with no luck, and the floppy controllers on two
different floppy/IDE cards, I finally tried the floppy controller on an
Adaptec 1522 SCSI cards which works like a charm.
Most PC FDC's are limited in their ability to access formats not native
to the PC - This is not a limitation of the ImageDisk program, it is a
limitation of the FDC implemented on most PC's. I've heard from a
few people that the Adaptec cards work well. I've had good luck
personally with the FDCs on both of the Intel Mainboards that I have, as
well as one Aopen board (although all the other Aopen boards I've tried
don't fare so well). Pick up an older PC with a FDC that works with
ImageDisk, Teledisk, PUTR,
etc. - and create a DOS partition and Linux partiton on it's HDD. You'll
have the best of both worlds.
Include an older SCSI controller (Adaptec or Buslogic will do) - this lets
one read or write 9-track 800/1600/6250 tapes, TK50Z, 8mm Exabyte, Zip
Disk, etc. as well.
DOS
---
ImageDisk, Teledisk for floppy image capture/restoration,
PUTR to handle XXDP/RT/etc. capture/restore
ST to create/restore using *.tap files
FLX to create/restore RSTS media
22DISK to deal with CP/M-to-DOS Diskette "Interchange"
I just recently discovered that in addition to mtools, linux also offers
"cpmtools" which work similarly, I'm told. I got the package, but
haven't
installed it yet as I haven't decided which of the linux boxes here will be
the one getting a 5.25" drive stuck in it.
etc.
Linux
-----
"dd", etc. to copy media
Windows doesn't play well with ANY of the software mentioned above...
Cheers,
Lyle
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