18 Jul
2002
18 Jul
'02
1:37 a.m.
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Gary Hildebrand wrote:
I do know that the 1571 will read an IBM 360k DSDD disk format. I was
going to try to copy my Osborne software off, but it is SSSD and the
1571 don't do those disks, only the double density Ozzie disks. NUTS!!
I'm looking for a working 360k IBM drive to copy stuff from the Linux PC
here to the 128 cp/m system. Serial transfers work too, and since the
files are pretty short as a rule it shouldn't take long.
To make a 360k floppy in Linux:
fdformat /dev/fdXh360
mkfs -t msdos /dev/fdXh360 # or
mkdosfs /dev/fdXh360
on my Debian box, with a standard 1.2M 5.25" drive. "X" is the drive
#. On older Slackware, IIRC, it was fdXH360, so you might wanna check.
So let me get this straight. I have a 128D, with an external 1541.
Assuming that the 6-pin DIN male-male cable that came with it is right,
I can format a DSDD floppy in the 1541, and read files from a 360k DOS
floppy to the Commodore-formatted disk.
In my googling for the pinout of the above-mentioned cable, I came
across some plans & software to attach a 1541 drive to a PCs parallel
port. Has anybody tried it?
Doc