23 Mar
2007
23 Mar
'07
8:19 p.m.
On 23 Mar 2007 at 11:02, Glen Slick wrote:
I finally got an 8-inch floppy drive connected to a PC
and now I want
to create an 8-inch boot floppy from a Teledisk image I found, but
tdcheck says it's an 82 track 3.5-inch floppy image. That's seems
odd.
http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/os/ALTOS.ZIP
Anyone know for sure if I should be able to use Teledisk to write this
image directly to an 8-inch floppy? Or would I need to do something
like write the image to a 3.5 inch floppy and then use ImageDisk to
read that floppy and write it to the 8-inch floppy?
Go ahead and give it a shot. If there are too many tracks in the
image, the drive will simply bump up against the end stop. It's till
a 500Kbps data rate. I have no idea why someone called the original
drive what they did.
Take my word for it--honest.
Cheers,
Chuck