Re: Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…
Fred Cisin
cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu May 4 17:35:51 CDT 2017
On Fri, 5 May 2017, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote:
> Yes, reading them with IMD was one of the first things I tried. Couldn't
> do it at all. Tons of errors, no tracks could be read. IMD didn't
> recognise the layout at all.
> All the disks I tried were like this.
Then, either it is impossible to read with the PC FDC, or we missed
something.
Is your 8 inch setup capable of FM/single density?
I think that Dave has a utility to test that.
Do you have access to any sort of "flux-transition" device (Central point
option board, cat-weasel, kryoflux, etc.)?
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