Questions tagged [floppy-drive]
Floppy drives and accessing floppy disks from historical computers, ranging from 8″ down to 3.25″ and other non-standard sizes.
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How did the Tandy 1000 select its drives?
I am trying to use some Tandy 1000 drives with a SuperCard Pro and have encountered some anomalies using them as "standard" floppy drives. It appears that with the original (or at least, working and ...
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Algorithm to properly format 360k 5.25" diskette on 1.2M drive?
This is a low level tech question, as I develop the driver for the FDC at its command set level.
Having reviewed a number of sources I can not find the algorithm of how to format the 360k diskette ...
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How can I read/write/format 5.25" 40-track MFM floppies on modern systems?
I've got a Fujitsu FM-7 with an external 5.25" floppy drive unit; it
has a pair of 40-track, double-sided, double-density¹ drives. These
use a fairly common low-level track format: the standard "IBM ...
