Creating 5.25" floppies

Terry Stewart terry at webweavers.co.nz
Mon Aug 17 19:55:10 CDT 2015


>I've got this hazy memory saying that the boot area (or possibly just the
first track?) of the 'DD' CP/M disk might still be FM, though, even
>though the rest of the disk isn't, and so it needs a FM-capable controller
to write out an image. Maybe I'm mixing that up with a different system,
though..

I think you might be.  I have an Osborne 1a with the DD modification.  I
can make good Osborne boot disks for it in a 360k floppy drive using
Imagedisk on my Pentium II.  The latter can't write single density at all
though.

Tez


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