Date   : Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:02:33 +0100
From   : jason.watton@... (Jason Watton (Lycos))
Subject: Guess the disk set...

> I went through another umm... 13 boards a couple of weeks ago testing for 
> FM
> ability (5 motherboards with integrated FDCs and 8 I/O cards with FDCs 
> on) -
> of that lot only three would write FM [1] successfully...
> ...
> [1] An ABit KT7A...
> [2] The IBM...
> [3] They were...

Thanks for the information/evidence. ;-)

I am *still* collecting statistics for how widespread FM support is in PCs. 
Some nice people have even sent disks in the post for testing!

What about reading (you mention writing)? Can you give (an) example(s) of 
boards that don't seem to work?

This can be off-list, if you think appropriate (no flaming...).

Cheers,

J.

>
> [1] An ABit KT7A (VIA VT82C686B), one branded as "AI5TH-1.00" (SMC 
> FDC37C6651R
> FDC), and an unknown IBM motherboard.
>
> [2] The IBM. Sadly I don't know what system it came from, but it's circa 
> 1996.
> P100 CPU, integrated peripherals including video [3]. BIOS product summary
> identifies as machine make/model "658659T", and System Board Identifier as
> "R1JYTBGGQLR".
>
> [3] They were going to get pressed into service as networked flat-screen 
> wall
> display controllers originally , so I'd luckily hoarded three of them.
>
> Note: Mitsumi/Newtronics drives seem to be utter crap; they appear to have
> extra "smarts" on the drives for some unknown reason, and get themselves 
> into
> a right state when asked to handle a FM data stream. Panasonic and TEAC 
> drives
> seem fine so far.
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
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