9 Mar
2005
9 Mar
'05
10:19 a.m.
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at
siconic.com>
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
Hi
Wow! Clever trick. Once the controller starts dumping
the sector, you just switch drives on it. Running it until
it completes. It just thinks it is a big sector.
I wish I'd thought of it first.
Dwight
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:40 -0600, Jim Leonard
wrote:
It doesn't work over the parallel port: it uses the actual PC floppy drive
to read GCR disks natively using an incredibly clever trick. Read the
information in the downloads on how it works. You can get the trial
version for free, but it requires two drives to work.
Or, you could try a simple parallel cable and
Disk2FDI:
http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi
How does that work? From past discussions on this list, the PC parallel
port isn't fast enough to sample the bitstream from a floppy drive...