Interest in a DiscFerret?

Christian Corti cc at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Thu Jan 10 09:10:58 CST 2019


On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Paul Berger wrote:
> One problem you may encounter reading LIF format diskettes on a PC using 
> these tools is many LIF diskettes are formatted 256 bytes/sector and there is 
> lots of PC diskette controller out there that cannot deal with that including

*All* standard PC floppy disk controllers can deal with 256 bytes/sector 
MFM. Show me one that can't.

USB drives are another story, because they are intelligent subsystems 
(think of a CBM 1541) that have only implemented the most minimum to 
handle standard format IBM PC floppies.

Christian


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