Greasweasel was Re: Installing an operating system on the 11/83 - update.

[Jay Jaeger]

On 2/22/2022 12:29 PM, Ray Jewhurst via cctalk wrote:
> I was wondering how well a Greaseweasel would write floppies for my Rainbow. Also, I saw that someone had images for Venix-86 Rainbow and I was wondering if they would be interested in sharing them.
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> Ray
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I was certainly able to *read* them on my Greaseweazle, using a real 
RX50 drive, and compared them to images I had read earlier under MS-DOS 
with a driver on a 360K drive.  I see no reason offhand why they could 
not be written with a Greaseweazle as well, unless the actual sector 
encoding (as opposed to sector size) is weird - and I don't recall that 
it is.  BTW, I used a Greaseweazle to write some IBM DD floppies for 
someone with a System/36 (IIRC) using a DSDD drive I borrowed from my DG 
S/140, and they worked fine for him.

JRJ