R: Re: Writing 8" floppies with SuperCard Pro

[supervinx]

Older DOS utils like IMD or TELEDISK knew better about 8" disks and precompression, directly accessing the controller. If the Supercard software has been written with no 8" disks support it will be hard to manage writes correctly. My two cents

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Da: supervinx <supervinx at libero.it> 
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Oggetto: R: Re: Writing 8" floppies with SuperCard Pro 

He told me there's no Linux support. I should try Keirf's utils or access the hardware with a serial connection.
May be I could try the Supercard in a VM.



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Oggetto: R: Re: Writing 8" floppies with SuperCard Pro 

Hi!
A bit OT.
I tried the fdadap card successfully reading and writing SD and DD disks, together with a standard ISA controller.
Had to try a bit, since not every disk controller manages SD writes. 
So the FDADAP should be ok, and the problems lie on the Supercard side.
I contacted the Supercard guy, in order to know if there's a Linux support. I've no windows machines, only some specialized DOS one.

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Da: John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> 
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Oggetto: Re: Writing 8" floppies with SuperCard Pro 

At 07:27 PM 8/11/2015, Josh Dersch wrote:
>Thus far I've been successful in creating images of floppies, but less successful in writing them back out.  Thus far I've tried a pair of Shugart 851s and a Qume QumeTrack 842.  I'm using a DBit FDADAP (http://www.dbit.com/fdadap.html) to deal with cabling and the TG43 signals. 

I'd tried the SuperCard Pro / FDADAP combo last March with no success.
I hope to return to the task.  Maybe it was a problem with my drive(s).

- John