5 Feb
2008
5 Feb
'08
7:34 a.m.
On 05/02/2008 15:08, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Indeed. And those are considerably more reliable than RX50s are.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
At 4:57 AM -0800 2/5/08, silvercreekvalley wrote:
I was about to answer this, but Zane beat me to it. DSDD (or SSDD) is
what you need, as RX50s are single-sided 80-track double-density MFM.
What's odd about the format is that it uses 10 sectors of 512 bytes per
track, which is quite a tight fit. That gives you a 400KB formatted floppy.
The RX50 disks - I'm assuming are different
to regular
5.25" floppy disks (DSDD) - I do have some of those,
but
I'm told the magnetic composition of the RX50 disks is
different?
There is an old DOS tool for turning PC floppies into RX50 floppies.
IIRC, you need a 1.2Mb Floppy drive in the PC. I can't remember if you
convert DSDD or DSHD floppies to RX50's. Finally,
someone has changed one of the RX50 disk
units
for what looks like a standard (PC style) 5.25" disk
drive. I'm just wondering if this was a standard thing
to do, or a bodge?
Good question, sounds like you either have an RX33 or someone has hacked
a Teac of the correct model to work as an RX33.