Using an 8" drive on a PC (WAS RE: "Smartcom II" package

<snip> I was able to make a 8" DOS 6.22 boot disk, but you have to play around with the 77 vs 80 tracks issue when spoofing a 1.2M 5 1/4" drive. Or just ignore the errors at the end of the format, as it will still work enough to get by. I told the computer BIOS I had a 1.2M 5 1/4" drive in A, and used the DBIT adapter to connect to the 8" drive. It may matter what side of the twisted drive cable the adapter is placed, so you'll have to play around with it. I am assuming your drive controller and computer are compatible with the hardware. Format complete, use SYS command from DOS to move boot files to the disk to make it bootable. Once you have the disk formatted it seems to work just fine as a DOS diskette like any other, at least in my disk imaging system. You can walk around and tell people you have a 8" boot drive on your PC, but it's not as exciting to others as you might think.....ug. Anyway I made a thread on my site about my adventures with imaging disks et al http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=561 Bill