[Coco] Fwd: [BBC-Micro] Omniflop

[Kish Tailor]

Just being forwarded onto the coco mailing list as I'm sure there will  
be a few interests on a easier way to transfer disk images.

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> From: Alex Taylor <zeem.uk at googlemail.com>

> Date: 28 March 2009 16:53:31 GMT

> To: bbc-micro at lists.cloud9.co.uk

> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Omniflop

>



> 2009/3/28 Kish Tailor <kishtailor at lavabit.com>:

>> Out of interest, has anyone installed a 5 1/4 floppy drive on a xp

>> system and got omniflop to work on transferring disk images straight

>> to a 5 1/4 floppy disk?

>

> Yes, I do it with my work computer. The main caveat being that writing

> DFS disks is entirely dependent on your motherboard, due to many

> floppy controllers not supporting the single-density (FM) mode

> required. I once swapped my board to gain an extra PCI slot and it

> broke the DFS writing ability, and I ended up swapping it back again.

>

> ADFS should always work because it uses the same double-density MFM

> encoding as the PC's DOS format floppies.

>

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> Alex Taylor

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