Date   : Wed, 01 Oct 1986 13:10:24 EDT
From   : Bob Clements <clements@bbnccq.ARPA>
Subject: IBM PC and 8" CP/M

Help!  I have almost all the pieces but I'm not quite there.

I'm trying to get my IBM PC to read and write 8" CP/M format
disks.  Hence this posting to both cpm and ibmpc lists.

I have just gotten an 8" disk controller (from Floppy Disk Services,
Inc., a pretty good disk hardware supplier) made by Maynard.
They sold me a device driver by Flagstaff Engineering which makes
the 8" drives appear as DOS formatted devices and which allows
low level access to the drives.  I have Media Master, which goes
between DOS and CP/M file formats, but only on 5" drives. They
say they are not planning to support 8" formats.

So I need the program that knows CP/M formats and runs on the PC.
FDSI has one for sale, at the LUDICROUS price of $595.00!
Does anyone know of something at a reasonable price?  Or has
anyone got some low level disk accessing code that I could
use to write my own?

Thanks,
/Rcc

Bob Clements - clements@bbn.com - {ihnp4,decvax,linus}!bbnccv!clements
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