On 3/21/2020 2:16 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
I appreciate the response. I'm waiting on a usb to floppy adapter and
I'll leave my real floppy controller disabled for the time being.
Purportedly, USB floppy works in MS-DOS and possibly Freedos as well.
It's Windows 98SE that is
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 4:17 PM wrote:
>
> Purportedly, USB floppy works in MS-DOS and possibly Freedos as well.
I don't really mess around with physical floppies much anymore. But I
briefly re-tried my Sony USB Floppy Disk Drive (model MPF88E) yesterday
(Dell Inspiron laptop from
I appreciate the response. I'm waiting on a usb to floppy adapter and I'll
leave my real floppy controller disabled for the time being. Purportedly, USB
floppy works in MS-DOS and possibly Freedos as well. It's Windows 98SE that is
questionable because if I'm not mistaken Microsoft screwed up
On 3/20/2020 6:55 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
As this is an industrial single board computer that's 20 years old,
I'm wondering if I can get the source code to the bios?
I guess you would have to check with the manufacturer for this. I know,
dealing with a company in Shenzen can be a
Hi!
> I had as a goal work around the floppy issue, but I'm hitting a wall
Maybe some other tools could work better? VGA-COPY once was
nice for copying even exotic formats and it can also format:
https://moenk.de/pages/vgacopy.html
(Download link at the end of the German description text)
March 21, 2020 10:08 AM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
> Confirmed that the BIOS has to be set to disable onboard floppy controller,
> that is for USB floppy
> only.
> The floppy drive seeks, but I get:
>
> Critical error during INT 13 disk access
> INT 13 status (hex): 08
> Bits: DMA
Confirmed that the BIOS has to be set to disable onboard floppy controller,
that is for USB floppy only.
The floppy drive seeks, but I get:
Critical error during INT 13 disk access
INT 13 status (hex): 08
Bits: DMA troubles
Description: DMA overrun
Program terminated.
> I'm currently
March 21, 2020 5:19 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> as you say WinXP sees the controller but can not format,
> can it at least read existing floppies? Will the drive
> spin up when XP tries to access it?
Seems to spin up alright, don't think I have any formatted disks
though...
>
Hi Michael,
as you say WinXP sees the controller but can not format,
can it at least read existing floppies? Will the drive
spin up when XP tries to access it?
About your project to connect either an ISA floppy controller
or directly a classic floppy drive without a controller (I am
not sure
I'm talking about the ISA variety via a digital research multi I/O card
It does however support USB floppy drives, but I doubt that they work in
freedos.
I think the problem is the bios, it has to show the correct geometry, etcetera.
As this is an industrial single board computer that's 20
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