Also the disks are only single-sided. If you image both sides, side 1 will look non-empty because it will have ibm formatting from the factory, but the only data is on side 0. Both tpdd1 and tpdd2 only physically have a single head.
bkw On Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 6:45 PM Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: > Ideally you would need a 720k drive not a normal 1.44m drive because of > the media recording level and the physical head width. And ideally you need > to know if you have TPDD1 or TPDD2 disks because they are different number > of tracks. > > FluxEngine software has an fb100 mode that reads tpdd1 disks but not > tpdd2. You can use that software with Greaseweazel hardware. > > bkw > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 5:53 PM R Pickett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8/30/26 5:49 PM, Gregory McGill wrote: >> > Make the scps and one of us can make floppys and try them on our >> drive.. >> > make sure you match the format when reading.. don't take a 1.44mb PC >> image >> >> Oh, that would be awesome, thank you! >> >> I'll be able to get to that this week sometime and I'll put them >> somewhere and post a link. >> >> Thanks, I really appreciate it! >> >> -- >> R Pickett >> [email protected] >> Social Justice Mage >> >
