Catweasel opinions, sources of info etc. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Mar 2005

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 From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at
oldskool.org>

Jules Richardson wrote:
  On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:40 -0600, Jim Leonard
wrote:

 Or, you could try a simple parallel cable and
Disk2FDI: 
http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi  
 How does that work? From past discussions on this list, the PC parallel
 port isn't fast enough to sample the bitstream from a floppy drive... 
Not all are, but a few can.  I believe the website has suggestions on $15 PCI 
parallel port cards that are known to work.  The distribution also has a speed 
testing utility (doesn't require a cable to run).
 Hi
 Most have some capacitors added to slow the signals down.
One can just remove the capacitors. Then you need to
worry a little about transmission line effects.
Dwight