[iyonix-support] Re: Five-and-a-quarter floppies
- From: "neil f" <faz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:44:04 -0000
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> Richard Mellish
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> David recently asked
> > Talking of 51/4" Floppies.....is there a drive out there
> going begging?
>
> There must be many drives stored in attics, as mine is, but I
> don't know what would be needed to get one working with an Iyonix.
>
> Even when I upgraded from my BBC B+ to an A5000, that already
> needed a special interface (which I think came from Beebug)
> to buffer the signals so it would talk to the old disc drive.
> And operation wasn't 100% reliable even with the interface,
> though it did allow me to transfer all the files that I
> thought I wanted.
>
> By the time I got my Iyonix, I had had no occasion to read
> any old floppies for some years, and I removed the interface
> from the A5000 to make room for an ethernet podule to allow
> another set of file transfers.
>
> As the Iyonix has the hardware and software to talk to its
> built-in 3½ inch drive, it MIGHT be able to talk to a 5¼ inch
> drive, possibly with the aid of the Beebug interface. Does
> anyone know?
>
> There's also the matter of disc formats. Many of my old
> floppies used the original DFS, and some of them used a
> Solidisk filing system that allowed multiple directories but
> with a different structure from ADFS.
> I think I had a utility on the A5000 that could cope with
> DFS. Might that run on an Iyonix with the help of Aemulor?
>
> Richard
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DFSreader works OK on an Iyonix - I use it to read/write 3.5" floppies
pre-formatted using a dual 3.5/5.25" drive on a beeb.
Not sure what would be involved with getting an old 5.25" drive to work
direct though.
-Neil F.
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