Re: Slot 'extender' dev cable

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <45c3e45c$0$14579$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
Tristan Mumford  <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
>mdj wrote:
>> On Feb 3, 9:40 am, Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumf...@xgmail.xcom>
>> wrote:
>>> mdj wrote:
>>> My Atlas-8 drive, unless it's been mislabelled is a 5-1/4" floppy drive.
>>> It's a half-height drive. Ie the same height as a standard later 5-1/4"
>>> drive on PCs.
>> 
>> Ah ok, same as the ones I have. They're a fairly standard Disk ]
>> [ clone, but can handle 40 tracks, unlike the Disk ]['s official 35
>> tracks (which is actually 36)
>> 
>> Matt
>
>Very interesting. What does it take to use the extra tracks on the apple end
>of things?

ProDOS will work without modification; you just need a formatter that will
go beyond 35 tracks.  I think Nibble may have published one at some point; I
used it to format 38-track disks for use with a DuoDisk.

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