28 Dec
2012
28 Dec
'12
9 a.m.
On 12/27/12 9:42 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
If you are
going to read old floppies, find a Shugart 851 and a Adaptec AHA-1522 ISA host
adapter, and/or a PCI Catweasel if you need to image esoteric formats.
Why specifically the AHA1522, Al?
from a few messages back in the thread What Al means is a controller with a DP8473 FDC in it.
The SCSI part doesn't matter. But the 8473 handles FM quite nicely
I really did find a problem with the non-A version of the 8473. I was using a Seagate
ST-01 and Imagedisk was having problems
recognizing the address mark on Track 0 of System/36 disks that went away when I switched
to the AHA-1522 with a 8473A.
I'll double-check that there really was a problem with S36 disks and non-A
8473's..