Lyle Bickley wrote:
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 02:33, dave04a at
dunfield.com wrote:
>>I second the thanks!
And thirds.
Suggestion to all the folks discussing
"Windows" and "Floppy Controllers".
Don't bother.
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.
I've found 3 sub-166MHz Compaq Presarios that do fine with FM 5.25"
disks. Not to say that a a 166MHz+ Compaq won't, I just haven't tried.
OTOH, I have a Micron P133 that won't, no matter what.
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'd add WFW3.11 to that, just because.
Linux
-----
"dd", etc. to copy media
And to upload/download large groups of files. While I can do this in
DOS, it's faster and simpler in Linux. Plus there's the whole
CD-burning thing.
Windows doesn't play well with ANY of the software
mentioned above...
s/ with ANY of the software mentioned above//
Doc