3.5" Altair CP/M

[David Griffith]

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:

> I have a tarbell floppy controller card that has been rewired to access
> 3.5" disks using a standard PC 3.5" disk drive.
[snip]
> What could be missing?  If the bitrate is fixed, then is CP/M not writing
> standard sectors?  Rawread says "Address not found" and diskinfo says the
> drive is not ready.

I take it you don't have access to a Unix machine?  The dd command might
be able to fish out something more from that disk.  Specifically, the
utility cpmtools is useful for writing to a variety of disk formats and is
easy to customize for new formats.


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David Griffith
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