Starting over with 8' drive on PC

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Sat Mar 26 00:07:08 CST 2005


Sellam wrote:
> First, the basics: I know my controller can handle FM because I was able
> to successfully copy all the files off an old 160K PC disk in my 1.2M
> 5.25" drive.

160K PC format is single-sided double-density (MFM), 8 sectors per
track of 512 bytes each, so that doesn't tell you anything about the
FM capability of the controller, or lack thereof.

Eric



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