5.25" floppy salvaging? Sounds like a job for FC5025 <http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html>!
Read only, uses a standard 5.25" mechanism, much cheaper than kryoflux and more than sufficient if you're reading "normal" (not copy protected) floppies in most any common format. Since the DVI uses 5.25", if there's interest I can talk to the guy about support, assuming it doesn't use the same Tandy format, I assume it does not. - Lee - 909.437.0250 - Destroying technology problems. On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:26 PM, Bert Put <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lee, > > I bought one of these a few years ago now for my Kaypro 2X and managed to > salvage a bunch of floppies with it. Very happy with it so far although > file transfer gets clunky due to having to run the HXE files through a > converter to get IMG files that I can directly manipulate. > > Cheers, Bert > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Lee Olivares <[email protected]> > Date: 7/23/18 16:09 (GMT-06:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [M100] GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator vs DVI > > I use flashfloppy.. has more features and is opensource the oled screens > are way better than the lcd > > Good tip! I didn’t realize there was an OSS firmware replacement for the > GoTek these days, awesome, OLED FTW! > > Damn I paid too much for those mini LCDs and never bothered to install one > anyway, such is life. :P > > - Lee > > On Jul 23, 2018, at 13:52, Gregory McGill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lee, I use flashfloppy.. has more features and is opensource the oled > screens are way better than the lcd > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:30 PM Lee Olivares <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey a GoTek, I know those things. >> >> There is a powerful (commercial) replacement firmware for those gadgets, >> HxC2001 has some extra features, LCD and buzzer support (for disk index and >> artificial drive access sounds). >> >> http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/ >> >> Cheers >> >> - Lee Olivares >> - (909) 437-0250 >> - The Future or Bust. >> >> On Jul 23, 2018, at 13:07, Greg Swallow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yes, they are 1.44 (diskettes and drive) formatted to 180k as the >> original 5.25" drives. >> I had to use drives with drive select jumpers and set drive 0 and 1 on >> each drive. I >> created the original boot diskette with a PC and then made others using >> the DVI. >> >> There is switching that can be done using the M100 cassette port to >> control side switch, >> but that has too much risk to the DVI for my taste. I'd rather try the >> emulator before >> hacking the DVI to swap sides on a diskette. Only hacking I might try on >> the DVI is a >> new ROM to allow SSDD. DS is certainly out of the question, but maybe >> some other features >> could be added via a new ROM; e.g. CP/M? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Brian White" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 12:41:41 PM >> Subject: Re: [M100] GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator vs DVI >> >> You made a copy of the dvi system disk on 3.5" ? >> You somehow got a dvi and dvi-dos to use more than 180K per disk side? >> Or is the dvi just creating bizarrely formatted 3.5" disks that only use >> the first 40 tracks, or double-spaced evey other track, or something ? >> It's really using HD disks? (1.44M instead of DD 720K) >> >> I guess a 3.5" DD disk (ie: 720K, not HD 1.44M), a single side of that >> would be 360K on 80 tracks, and 40 tracks of that would be 180K, which >> would be the same as the original single-sided DD 40-track 5.25" drive & >> disk. And I think 3.5" always runs at 300 rpm whether HD or DD, same as >> 5.25" DD (5.25" HD 1.2M runs at 360rpm), so I guess dvi dos and the >> controller chip & firmware in the dvi could >> do it that way. >> >
