DEC Pro hard drive formatter

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/14/21 1:52 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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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...
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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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What about the GOTEK with modified firmware that they are talking
about in other groups?

bill