26 Jan
2003
26 Jan
'03
6:57 a.m.
Has anyone gotten an 8"
floppy operating under an Intel based Linux host.
Yes. And some software to read 8" disks and save them as DMK-format
images may be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmklib/
I haven't yet written code to drive DMK images back to disk, but I
think there's already software that can do it. For more information
see:
http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80resources.html
Note that many PCs have floppy controllers that can't read and write
single density (FM) disks. If you have such a PC, you might need
to buy a different controller, such as a Catweasel:
http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/ha…
I suspect (but am far from certain) that System/36 disks are probably
double density (MFM), which PCs should have no trouble with.
To hook up the 8-inch drive to the PC, you'll need an adapter such
as John Wilson's FDADAP:
http://www.dbit.com/fdadap.html