9 Mar
2005
9 Mar
'05
5:19 a.m.
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:40 -0600, Jim Leonard wrote:
It doesn't work over the parallel port: it uses the actual PC floppy drive
to read GCR disks natively using an incredibly clever trick. Read the
information in the downloads on how it works. You can get the trial
version for free, but it requires two drives to work.
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Or, you could try a simple parallel cable and
Disk2FDI:
http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi
How does that work? From past discussions on this list, the PC parallel
port isn't fast enough to sample the bitstream from a floppy drive...