On 01/11/10 16:16, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
Does this imply that the DiscFerret will support 8
inch floppy drives?
(I'm hoping it does...)
Ho yus. The current support list includes:
* Amstrad 3-inch (if I ever figure out why I can write 3us-spaced
pulses and get nothing but garbage back from the drive)
* PC 3.5-inch DSDD, DSHD and DSED (yep, 2.88MB too, once I get the
IBM drive hooked up and my half-dozen DSED discs arrive)
* PC, BBC, etc. 5.25-inch, hard and soft sectored up to 255 sectors
* 8-inch, hard and soft sectored up to... you guessed it, 255 sectors
* SA1000, ST412, or ST506-interface Winchester hard drives (with
adapter board). So that'll be basically all the 20-year-old heavy iron
that doesn't have a DEC sticker on it :)
* (maybe) Nintendo Famicom Disc System -- if I ever get an FDS to
play with. Bridgeboard and mods needed if you want to write FDS discs,
and possibly new microcode too.
Initial software support should include anything that uses a uPD765 or
WD177x/WD179x style controller. Though if people start sending me images
of strange disc formats (*cough* AmigaDOS), I might just have to add
format support for those too :)
--
Phil.
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