21 Nov
2014
21 Nov
'14
4:30 p.m.
On 2014-11-21 13:08, Glen Slick wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
True. But if he find blank floppies, or floppies with some other format,
then he needs something else than a RX01/RX02 to reformat the floppies
before they can be used on an RX01/RX02.
Johnny
On 11/21/2014 11:26 AM, Glen Slick wrote:
So is the original poster (Michael) really looking for already
formatted RX01 floppies, or will blank 8-inch single sided floppies do
just as well? Probably easier to find generic floppies than already
formatted RX01 floppies. Is it correct that RX01 format floppies can be
created from blank
floppies with a standard PC floppy controller (or at least some
controllers / motherboards, depending on the controller chip) while
RX02 format floppies cannot?
Yup. The RX02 ("double density") use a whacky MFM scheme (with some code
substitutions) for data with FM sector headers. Not doable at all with a
standard PC setup. RX01s are pretty much stock FM.