Re: Trackstar disk image question

[stopspam@thesource.gs (Bart)]

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>>Further, as I recall, SOME 360K drives
>>can read and write ProDOS 140K disks, others are totally incompatible.
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>My Trackstar came with a couple capacitors that you could attach to
>the 5.25" floppy drive(s) of a Tandy 1000
My Trackstar(s) did not come witht hese capacitors. I have 1 TS from Emerald City (just 
the board) and one from Goodwill in the original Tandy box.  The later one had:

>Besides, my Trackstar also came with a small controller card	 
That Jeff mentions. 
This card goes between the TS and the floppy controller and is suposed to do some voodoo 
that allows the TS to see a 360k drive.
At first, using the ][+/128 software for the Trackstar all I could get were app files on a 
360k floppy.
My TS (The Emerald City one) is mounted on a Hyundai clone 386 I restored.
When I got the "E" version of the software AND mounted the small circuit board between the 
trackstar and the Floppy controller (The board came with the Goodwill Tandy TS 
so..incompatable perhaps?), I can now create 360k floppys it can read.  Now problem:  
Something is wrong in that 360k PC floppy (but I mounted 3 drives, and each had this 
problem so it ain't the floppy drive), or the 1.4 floppy drive also on the controller no 
longer make disks that are readable on any other machine (when writing in MS DOS mode).  
Also, the 360k ProDOS disks the TS produces are NOT readable on my PCTransporter's 360k 
drives and the 360k ProDOS disks made by the PCT in Apple mode are not readable by the TS. 
 <--this was the primary reason I mounted the TS in the 1st place; I was researching this 
very possibility for transfering files between the PC and the Apple world.  Yes I know, 
there are many other methods but I had not read of this particualr side road and was 
curious.  So far no luck, but if I get back to this, and figure it out I will let folks 
know my progress.
-Bart