On Oct 1, 17:08, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Subject: Re: Universal drive
::
::Is there a device that would allow _any_ disk, independently of
::format, including Apple ][ disks, to be read? I know Teledisk can do
::this for all conventional formats, but not Apple disks. It would be
::nice to connect one of these and read the disk image into a file.
::The main reason why I ask is for rescuing messed up floppies...
::
The closest thing to this I can think of would be a Catweasel controller,
but they are not for the faint of heart or ignorant of disk format. They
are also rather difficult to find. Try searching on AltaVista; you may
luck out and find one for sale. At least in the Commodore world, we've
been
successful at reading 64 disks on a PC with a
Catweasal-enhanced drive.
I know someone at Edinburgh who was trying to persuade a Catweasel
controller to read/write unusual formats, but last I heard he was making
heavy weather of it. Here's the Catweasel URL:
http://members.tripod.com/~apd2/catweasl.htm
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York