29 Oct
1999
29 Oct
'99
9:56 a.m.
I've found someone who has the entire collection of disks from USUS,
the UCSD Pascal User Group, and he's cheerfully coaxed his Linux
box's disk parameters into reading the 800K 5 1/4 Pinnacle Systems
disks he had. I hope to decipher the .SVOL "disk volume in a file"
method they were stored in, and post them to my web page soon.
Sounds great, especially if any of this stuff works on the Terak.
By the way, i've had some minor difficulties reformatting floppys
for use on the Terak. I'll try this new Radio Shack degausser on
them before formatting (formatting being done by cp/m on a cromemco Z2)
and hopefuly that will help. The problem may well be my floppy drives
fault though...
-Lawrence LeMay
He also mentioned he has source code on 8 inch disks from an
Ohio Scientific, Inc. machine. He thought hed have more trouble
finding a way to read those because of its scheme of using an
6820 parallel port controller and a 6850 serial port controller
to access floppies. Is that true? Should the normal scheme for
connecting a Shugart-y drive to an old AT-era WD controller
work to read these old disks?
- John