13 Jan
2014
13 Jan
'14
1:23 a.m.
Chuck,
Thanks! I was hoping there would be a solution like that. I can remove a
drive from the Panasonic and use that.
Just a technical point though. What would be the correct BIOS choice to
make the PC hardware recognise the drive, as my BIOS doesn't (and probably
no PC BIOS doesn't) list an 8 inch drive. The selection is 5.25 inch 360k
or 5.25 inch 1.2MB or 3.5 inch (1.44MB)?
These Panasonic drives are double sided and 77 tracks, and the machine
write data in double density. I'm assuming this means MFM?
Terry (Tez)
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 01/12/2014 03:59 PM, Terry Stewart wrote:
On day I'd love to image the 8 inch disks
I've got with my Panasonic
JD-850M
(http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/panasonicJD850M.htm)
but I have no idea what to use or how to go about this.
Tez,
If you can hook up an 8" drive to a PC (use John Wilson's FDADAP if you
want it simple--but you can also wire your own cable), you can use Dave
Dunfield's ImageDisk to do the job. No special hardware required, other
than a PC controller that can also handle FM encoding--there are programs
to test that. Panasonic tended to rely on standard modulation (FM/MFM).
Should work on DOS just fine.
--Chuck