Re: 'Frankenstein' Disk Drives, Done Cheap

On Thursday 24 April 2014, you wrote:

the offical one for the catweasel :) 
(http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Catweasel#Imagetool)

> 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... :)
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.hitmen-console.org    http://magicdisk.untergrund.net
> > http://www.pokefinder.org        http://ftp.pokefinder.org
> > 
> > Of course, what I really want is total world domination.
> > <Linus Torvalds>
> > 
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