14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
9:21 a.m.
On 2/13/13, Chris Tofu <rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com> wrote:
I've readily created and reproduced images of
Tandy 2000 720k 5 1/4"
floppies with run of the mill 1.2 Meg drives. All kinds.Imagedisk, Teledisk
wotevuh. In early pentiums and whatnot. Didn't tamper with jumpers nor data
rates. And I do seem to recall W2K server straitaway raeding quads in 1.2
drives. Again w/no tampering or fenagling anything. Not even a pretty
please.
This was my experience as well, imaging 720K 5.25" floppies originally
written by a 3B2. No problems at all reading on a semi-modern 1.2M
5.25" floppy drive in a P-133 PC. Evidently the floppy controller is
smart enough to adjust the data rate without outside assistance, using
Linux, OpenBSD, or IMD running under DOS.
PS to the original poster: I have a variety of disk images for these
machines, if you're interested contact me privately and I can send a
list.
-Andy