Interest in a DiscFerret?

[Fred Cisin]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
> All my Apple II disks are DOS 3.2. When 3.3 came out, it was a) too much trouble
> to convert everything up, and b) ... read that 'missing the wave' story.
> It gave me a sour feeling about 3.3. Totally my own fault, but still.

If you get any of the existing commercial devices that can read Apple II 
disks, . . .
MOST, if not all, of the ones available are 16 sector.  Although the 
hardware could handle 13 sector, you would need to modify the software. 
Even the upper level (file system) portions of the code are likely to be 
hard-coded for 16 SPT.


For the MFM formats, avoid USB drives.  They tend to be designed solely as 
PC peripherals, and lack flexibility for even other sector sizes!
For FM and 128 bytes per sector (problematic for most PC FDC), check Dave 
Dunfield's site for MFM imaging utility, and test programs for some FDC 
capabilities.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com