On Aug 2, 2014, at 14:52 , Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
My advice is to use the motherboard with a built-in
controller that supports 2 floppy drives (some only support a single floppy). Run the
single-density test program. If it passes, you're fine for almost any common MFM/FM
disk format. The only reason for going to a separate ISA FDC is either non-support of FM
or your need to handle 128-byte MFM sectors.
Will I need 128 byte MFM support for any of the 8" formats I might encounter?
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/