9 Mar
2005
9 Mar
'05
11:15 a.m.
From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at
randy482.com>
From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:34 PM
aren't
You might look at:
http://www.rothfus.com/SVD/
It uses a PIC. It only has 256K of RAM right now but he is upgrading it to
1mb.
I'm looking into using an eZ80 and a Flash card. By using track buffering
it is possible to emulate almost anything with very little RAM.
Randy
Hi Randy
I'm familiar with Eric's work. I was stating that without
specific hardware, writing these unusual formats is not possible
with a PC. Eric's stuff is a good way to handle things.
Does anyone know the specifics of what is different
between the SVD format and the FDI's?. The SVD is an
ASCII octal format. Is the FDI a binary or something?
Dwight
From:
"Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
---snip---
>I should note that, since FDI images are 100% exact bitwise dumps, they
>exactly easy to read (they're not nice
clean formatted-track-and-sector
images)
>so getting them translated back to an actual
floppy diskette is not
currently
possible
(since nobody has written the software to do so yet).
---snip---
It is not a matter of software. It is a matter of hardware. Unless
someone can comes up with a trick, the controller won't do it.
Dwight