Re: FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller available

[Dave Rawson <DCRawson@GMail.Com>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Next step--the two-sided index pulse mod...  ;-)

I'm happy to report (with long and tortuous detours of heroic 
proportion) that I've ported the oldest of my Apple sides over to PC as 
proof-of-concept.  I purchased the FC5025 and the Teac FD55GFR and the 
combination worked.  I took note of Mike's notes about ProDos being 
faster and it worked as well as ".dsk", so why not.

CiderPress recognizes the disks as MagicWindow files and will 
automatically extract them to PC readable ".txt" files when requested!

There are some eccentricities that I don't have the time or coherence 
enough to describe right now, but I can already imagine some possible 
approaches to dealing with them.

So, I've read about 30 front sides and ache to read the backs.  I've 
jumped the E2 to no avail.  All the floppies are already punched for 
both sides since that's the way I used them.

Has anyone been able to read the backs, punched and jumpered, yet?

If so, is there any way to predict which of the FD55s allow this?

As an incidental approach to bad sector reads, has anyone tried the 
"browse" option which allows working file by file, if necessary, so that 
a whole ".dsk" image isn't 'bad' or necessary?

Thanks again to everyone for their encouragement and help!