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A2 5.25" drive on a PC?
- Subject: A2 5.25" drive on a PC?
- From: Tim Haynes <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:22:48 -0500
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
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We all know that a PC cannot read/write an A2 disk because of basic
MFM/GCR differences.
What about the possibility of putting together a specialized cable that
would adapt a standard A2 5.25" drive to a PC's serial port? The cable
would also have to pull power from somewhere - possibly from a molex
connector hooked into the PC's power supply? And then we'd need some
specialized PC software to actually do the reading/writing.
Does this seem at all feasible? Any thoughts?