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Re: Reading Apple II CP/M diskettes

Linards Ticmanis wrote:

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

[DSK2FDI]



Just one tweak--you don't need two 5.25" floppies.  The master can be a
3.5", a much more likely later configuration.




Didn't know that. I thought the 5.25" drives spin at a different speed?
Or is this of no concern?


Doesn't matter.  DSK2FDI only uses the "other" drive to start a read,
then switches to the 5.25" drive, so relative rotational speed isn't an
issue.


The bigger problem is probably the fact that for almost a decade, many
PC mainboards have supported only one floppy drive at a time, if at all.


I haven't noticed that--if there's a floppy port at all, only a
master/slave cable is needed to access two drives.

-michael

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