On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Generic _single-density_ floppies are what the RX01/2
needs. So AFAIK any
pre-formatted single-density floppy will work in either one. AFAIK,
originally, all SSSD floppies came already low-level formatted, but that may
have changed later on.
Yes.
(I don't recall if DSSD floppies exist; if they
did,
the RX0x would probably just ignore the second side.)
Unfortunatewly, on 8"
disks, the index hole is not in the same place for
SS V DS disks. So, "ignoring" the second side isn't feasable.
However, you COULD punch an additional set of holes in the jacket to
"convert" a DS disk inro a SS disk.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'blank' -
did you mean 'no data/ file
system', or 'not low-level formatted'?
That does seems to be the issue.
128 bytes per sector FM seems to be the
"low level" formatting required, as doable by many other machines.