Re: 'Frankenstein' Disk Drives, Done Cheap

Lots of "imagetool"s out there; where can I find yours?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Groepaz" <groepaz@gmx.net>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: 'Frankenstein' Disk Drives, Done Cheap


> On Wednesday 23 April 2014, you wrote:
>> I'm affraid that there's no nice/modern solution as this was already at
>> the
>> time a dead standard !
>>
>> 1) Lot of 100TPI drives were made by (for) commodore - Mechanicals are
>> generally still alive, so, no real problems on this point 2) Some
>> manufacturers produced shugart 100TPI drives - that "should" be
>> compatible
>> with normal controlers 3) Some of those (shugart) drives had optionally
>> 96TPI or 100TPI mechanics with identical electronics 4) Finding proper 4D
>> floppy disks is nearly impossible those days (2D works time to time but
>> HD
>> can't)
>>
>> Now, all depends on the goal what can be
>> 1) Have a brand new 8050/SFD1001 compatible drive ==> I would say forget
>> 2) Read (write) some 100TPI floppy disks in "modern" world
>> ->2.1) Have a working 8050/8250(LP)/SFD1001 and a zoom floppy interface
>> ==>
>> The easiest path ? (*) ->2.2) Have a catweasel, a suitable PC, and a
>> 100TPI mech/shugart interface ==> Should be possible (**)
>>
>> (*) I actually have this type on configuration available
>> (**) Searching since years ... I've possibly sourced a pair of brand new
>> Micropolis drives in the other side of the earth ... that might be on
>> their way "home"
>
> if you ever make that work... speak up :) i have looked for such drive for
> ages when i added support for that format to the imagetool. in theory it
> should just work, but who knows... :)
>
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