13 Feb
2013
13 Feb
'13
5:32 p.m.
I've readily created and reproduced images of Tandy 2000 720k 5 1/4" floppies
with run of the mill 1.2 Meg drives. All kinds.Imagedisk, Teledisk wotevuh. In early
pentiums and whatnot. Didn't tamper with jumpers nor data rates. And I do seem to
recall W2K server straitaway raeding quads in 1.2 drives. Again w/no tampering or
fenagling anything. Not even a pretty please.
Don't listen to the Fredster. Quads are alive and well and are the de facto Uber
Density.
13 Feb
13 Feb
6:29 p.m.
I shall ask you about this matter, Chris. I need to grab some disks for one
Altos 586 and one ATT 3b1.
Sergio.
2013/2/13 Chris Tofu <rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com>
I've readily created and reproduced images of Tandy 2000 720k 5 1/4"
floppies with run of the mill 1.2 Meg drives. All kinds.Imagedisk, Teledisk
wotevuh. In early pentiums and whatnot. Didn't tamper with jumpers nor data
rates. And I do seem to recall W2K server straitaway raeding quads in 1.2
drives. Again w/no tampering or fenagling anything. Not even a pretty
please.
Don't listen to the Fredster. Quads are alive and well and are the de
facto Uber Density.
6:49 p.m.
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, C:\Derp wrote:
I've readily created and reproduced images of
Tandy 2000 720k 5 1/4"
floppies with run of the mill 1.2 Meg drives. All kinds.Imagedisk,
Teledisk wotevuh. In early pentiums and whatnot. Didn't tamper with
jumpers nor data rates. And I do seem to recall W2K server straitaway
raeding quads in 1.2 drives. Again w/no tampering or fenagling anything.
Not even a pretty please.
Don't listen to the Fredster. Quads are alive and well and are the de
facto Uber Density.
For those who are literate, I clearly stated that MOST "1.2M" drives can
do "720K" formats, once the drive select and cabling issues of
installation are done, and after somebody COMPETENT writes software that
switches speed or data transfer rate to the correct values (which they
will often DEFAULT to, and prevents software from double-stepping.
Any problems that occur are installation issues, and/or the result of
running software that does stuff that you do not want.
However, calling them "quad" is a completely clear determination of
incompetence.
There are no "FREDSTER"s here.
14 Feb
14 Feb
12:21 p.m.
On 2/13/13, Chris Tofu <rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com> wrote:
I've readily created and reproduced images of
Tandy 2000 720k 5 1/4"
floppies with run of the mill 1.2 Meg drives. All kinds.Imagedisk, Teledisk
wotevuh. In early pentiums and whatnot. Didn't tamper with jumpers nor data
rates. And I do seem to recall W2K server straitaway raeding quads in 1.2
drives. Again w/no tampering or fenagling anything. Not even a pretty
please.
This was my experience as well, imaging 720K 5.25" floppies originally
written by a 3B2. No problems at all reading on a semi-modern 1.2M
5.25" floppy drive in a P-133 PC. Evidently the floppy controller is
smart enough to adjust the data rate without outside assistance, using
Linux, OpenBSD, or IMD running under DOS.
PS to the original poster: I have a variety of disk images for these
machines, if you're interested contact me privately and I can send a
list.
-Andy
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