25 May
2006
25 May
'06
3:57 a.m.
On 5/25/06, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
I used to say "MOST" soft-sectored floppies.
Now, I'm not even sure of
that.
I do have 3" and 3.25" drives and a bunch of diskettes, but they're no
longer easily accessible.
Howzbout:
Some Commodore formats
Yeah... GCR, variable number sectors per track (4 zones, typically)...
The only C=
drive I can think of that used a WD-style chip was the 3.5" 1581. The
best solution
I know of is to interface vintage C= drives to modern hardware
(IEEE-488 and/or IEC
bus) - let the C= hardware do the hard work.
Ensoniq Mirage was fun (mixed sector sizes)
No kidding - I have a Mirage - wish I could easily backup/recreate disks.
-ethan