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Article #94Re: 1.2M 5 1/4" Floppies using 8" Controller
From: Gern
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 15:00
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 15:00
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The pinouts are somewhere, anyone? Be advised that the default 1.2 is the IBM 8" drive disk format, which IBM lived up to Inconsistant But Marketable and used a different format. Therefore, a 1.2 High Den drive on the Z-100 8" controller will format to 1.2Mbytes which will not be compatible with the PC/AT 1.2MByte format. There are programs (some from REMark) to run to allow the Z-100 MS-DOS to use the PC/AT 1.2MB formats okay and I believe to also FORMAT them as well. Cheers, Gern -------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TOPS20.RADC.AF.MIL!GUBBINS From: GUBBINS@TOPS20.RADC.AF.MIL (Gern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: Re: 1.2M 5 1/4" Floppies using 8" Controller Message-ID: <12518064305.12.GUBBINS@TOPS20.RADC.AF.MIL> Date: 14 Aug 89 15:00:58 GMT References: <2708@ur-cc.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14