On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
I have had better luck with a P-III motherboard that connects to the 34-50
pin adapter in the middle and 8" on the other end. This way you can trick
the BIOS of the computer to think the 8" drive is a 1.2Mb 5 1/4". With
this set up I have made a bootable DOS 6.22 8" disk, so I know it works.
THEN use the USB port to copy files as a separate drive. The USB to floppy
devices are pretty good for 3.5" but I would not expect a direct adapter
from the 8" to be reliable.
A USB to floppy device that supports 5.25" 1.2M "should" work.
A USB to floppy device that supports the 3.5" "mode 3"/NEC98 (360RPM 3.5")
might be coercible into working.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
