Catweasel opinions, sources of info etc.

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Wed Mar 9 09:39:32 CST 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...

Not all are, but a few can.  I believe the website has suggestions on $15 PCI 
parallel port cards that are known to work.  The distribution also has a speed 
testing utility (doesn't require a cable to run).
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