DEC Pro hard drive formatter

[Mattis Lind]

torsdag 14 januari 2021 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org
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> > On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:42 PM, Chris Zach <cz at alembic.crystel.com> wrote:
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> > Is there a hardware emulator that can emulate RX50's from images to a
> Pro? Been wondering that...



As far as the releasnotes tell FlashFloppy by Keir Fraser support RX33 and
RX50.

https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES




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> Perhaps David Gesswein's MFM emulator could be modified to do that.  You
> might ask him.  I don't think it does so out of the box, though.  The
> signal frequencies are much lower than those of hard drives.
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> Some others make products that claim to offer the capability,
> https://www.drem.info is one (mentioned by David) and I also found this
> https://www.shopfloorautomations.com/hardware/floppy-connect/ .  I know
> nothing about either.  Standard PC floppy formats use 9 sectors per track
> but normal drives can handle 10-sector DEC formats too.  If the emulators
> are done right they should handle that as well, but of course you'd have to
> confirm that.
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>         paul
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