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Re: FC5025 5.25



schmidtd wrote:
On Feb 19, 12:23 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:

Except you can't read the flip side of disks unless they have an index
hole on both sides.


Good point.  That is mentioned on the website.  It also seems to
indicate that it might depend on the drive hardware.  Any idea which
drive might be able to overcome the lack of index hole?

The simplest way is to modify a drive so that index pulses are always
produced, either by simply injecting a pulse stream or by adding an
ORed index hole detector on the opposite side of the drive.

That is the approach suggested for DISK2FDI.

This adapter seems like a "USB-Weasel".  ;-)

-michael

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