[sebhc] hard sector substitute
Carroll Waddell
CarrollWaddell at sc.rr.com
Mon Jun 28 19:34:47 CDT 2004
For my 2 cents worth, it would seem that a soft sectored controller
could use a 3.5" diskette without too many modifications.
CEW
Jack Rubin wrote:
>>In the days when I was active with my H89, I would often use
>>a 3.5 inch drive with my H37 controller. It was much more
>>convenient than the 5.25 inch disks.
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>What did it take to run 3.5 drives with the H37? What drives did you use
>- did you need 720K or could you use 1.4M units?
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>>that the floppy was hard sectored. This could be done with
>>both 5.12 and 3.5 inch disks - you would use soft sector
>>diskettes with the H17.
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>>Two questions:
>>1. Has anyone already done this?
>>2. Perhaps more important - Is anyone interested?
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>1) not that I'm aware of
>2) I expect that there would be a (long?) line of people willing to buy
>a PCExpress board that would let them hook up 3.5 drives to an H17! I
>can think of at least 6 anyway (I'd be good for a couple, for sure).
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>Jack
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