>I'll add one more note that an 8" drive supports 77 tracks/cylinders, >where a 5.25" high-density drive supports 80. So be careful.
Noted. Everything is now ready waiting for those bits and pieces to arrive from the U.S. Last night I spent some time going deeper into IMD118, 22DISK and ANADISK. I read the documentation properly and carefully. I also played around with the programs on the 486 using some known floppies and formats. I tried different options and checked the images in a binary editor relating what I saw with what the docs said should be there. I now have a better understanding of how these programs work and what they can tell/do for the user. Dave D and Herb Johnston have some good info on 8 inch drives both in the docs and the web. The docs in 22DISK (Chuck's?) give some good info on CP/M format configurations and how to determine unknown ones. The MS-DOS 6.2 486 DX worked perfectly! I'm looking forward to this project. Even if I don't get anything off those unknown 8 inch floppies I should be able to image my Panasonic JD-850M CP/M ones. That will be reward enough as they contain locally written software and I'd like to archive it. What might throw a spanner in the works is that the drive may be broken. It looks fine but it is untested. Guess I'll just have to wait and see. Terry (Tez)
