1 Dec
2005
1 Dec
'05
3:51 p.m.
On 12/1/2005 at 5:30 PM Jim Leonard wrote:
Well, to be fair, it's the *controller* you should
be blaming and not the
drive. I'm sure floppy drive technology hasn't changed in 15 years, but
the controllers and software support sure has.
In a USB drive, where does the drive end and the controller start? And,
for the record, many older drives tend to be better constructed with some
notable exceptions (e.g. Chinon).
For the record: It is impossible to write 800K mac
floppies (and 880K
Amiga disks) if you have a traditional NEC-based floppy controller.
You know, I told someone that 10 years ago and was called a liar. I
wonder if the parallel-port kludge will let the Mac 800K format
through--though that's not using the NEC controller to do anything but move
the heads and select the drive, something that the parallel port could also
do easily.
Cheers,
Chuck