Date   : Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:00:18 +0100
From   : anders.carlsson@... (Anders Carlsson)
Subject: Omniflop

Jules Richardson wrote:

> http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm

I've tried at least two or three different motherboards with FDC chips
listed on the page, ranging from 66 MHz Pentium to 850 MHz Pentium III.

While writing 3.5" floppy disks generally works fine (e.g. for use on
my Master Compact), I have mostly failures with 5.25" disks. I've tried
both Omniflop in XP and the older Omnidisk in MS-DOS.

The drive itself is a DD unit and is fine in MS-DOS and Windows 98. For
various reasons Windows 2000/XP doesn't support DD floppy drives (but
it can read DD floppy disks in a 5.25" HD unit). I have read that YMMV
greatly when it comes to 5.25" floppy drives and that you may need to
try 5-10 different units until you find one that will work reliably.
Unfortunately I only have this single one...

I even went as far as buying a Catweasel controller once, but it was
pretty much useless due to inferior software support. I sold it again,
only to find out that official driver developer had commenced a few
months after selling it... so it may work better today than 1-2 years
ago.

Best regards

-- 
Anders Carlsson