Date   : Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:05:21 -0000
From   : faz@... (Neil F)
Subject: Omniflop

Alex, out of interest, what is the motherboard that worked?

Maybe we could compile a list of 'known-to-do-FM' motherboards.

-Neil F.


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2009/3/28 Kish Tailor <kishtailor@...>:
> 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.

-- 
Alex Taylor

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