Date   : Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:28:46 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Fw: XFER cable

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 10:33 -0500, Jason Watton (Lycos) wrote:
> I've tried Omnidisk (http://www.8bs.com/submit/omnidisk/OmniDisk.htm) on
> about 50 PCs so far (with internal standard FDCs) - all of them read DDOS
> (MFM), and only 2 failed to read DFS (FM). Hell, I use a laptop, and it
> works on that!!! It auto-senses everything, so there's no need to delve into
> the (horrible) PC.

Hmm, I'll give that a go, ta - it's not under 8bs's file transfer page
which is why I hadn't seen it before. I've only ever tried FDC in the
past and never got it to do anything useful. Time to figure out how to
get a DOS VM working in Linux...

> I'm shocked at Jules... have you been using serial all this time?

Actually I've been using the policy of burying my head in the sand and
hoping it'll all go away :-)

I don't actually have much Acorn floppy software though - most of it's
for other machines (hence reading disks on the PC is the best option so
I can back things up from other platforms)

cheers

Jules