15 May
2007
15 May
'07
10:15 p.m.
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:
I have a tarbell floppy controller card that has been
rewired to access
3.5" disks using a standard PC 3.5" disk drive. I have 3 disks that the
Altair can boot off of and read, but my windows computer can't do anything
with them. I've tried rawread.exe and diskinfo.exe and they both choke on
the disk. I assumed that if a disk could be written with the standard 3.5"
disk drive on the tarbell card then it should also be read on the same
drive connected to a modern IBM compatible.
Not necessarily.
What are the specifics of the format that the Tarbell controller is
writing on those disks?