Catweasel opinions, sources of info etc.

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>
>On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:40 -0600, Jim Leonard wrote:
>> > Or, you could try a simple parallel cable and Disk2FDI:
>> > http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi
>>
>> How does that work? From past discussions on this list, the PC parallel
>> port isn't fast enough to sample the bitstream from a floppy drive...
>
>It doesn't work over the parallel port: it uses the actual PC floppy drive
>to read GCR disks natively using an incredibly clever trick.  Read the
>information in the downloads on how it works.  You can get the trial
>version for free, but it requires two drives to work.
>

Hi
 Wow! Clever trick. Once the controller starts dumping
the sector, you just switch drives on it. Running it until
it completes. It just thinks it is a big sector.
 I wish I'd thought of it first.
Dwight