clements@bbnccq.ARPA (Bob Clements) (10/01/86)
Help! I have almost all the pieces but I'm not quite there.
I'm trying to get my IBM PC to read and write 8" CP/M format
disks. Hence this posting to both cpm and ibmpc lists.
I have just gotten an 8" disk controller (from Floppy Disk Services,
Inc., a pretty good disk hardware supplier) made by Maynard.
They sold me a device driver by Flagstaff Engineering which makes
the 8" drives appear as DOS formatted devices and which allows
low level access to the drives. I have Media Master, which goes
between DOS and CP/M file formats, but only on 5" drives. They
say they are not planning to support 8" formats.
So I need the program that knows CP/M formats and runs on the PC.
FDSI has one for sale, at the LUDICROUS price of $595.00!
Does anyone know of something at a reasonable price? Or has
anyone got some low level disk accessing code that I could
use to write my own?
Thanks,
/Rcc
Bob Clements - clements@bbn.com - {ihnp4,decvax,linus}!bbnccv!clements
K1BC @ K1BC 145.09 and 221.11 MHz, Boston area
[Everything above is the trademark of somebody.]Leisner.Henr@xerox.ARPA (marty) (10/02/86)
Bob, Please forward any responses to me. I currently have the same problem. Or summarize and post to the net. thanks, marty
Dusel.Wbst@xerox.ARPA (10/03/86)
This is a problem I am also interested in solving. Please post your findings to the net, I suspect there are many of us in the same drive. Pete
wcwells%opal.Berkeley.EDU@ucb-vax.ARPA (William C. Wells) (10/03/86)
In reply to: Date: Wed, 1 Oct 86 13:10:24 EDT From: Bob Clements <clements@CCQ.BBN.COM> Subject: IBM PC and 8" CP/M To: info-ibmpc@usc-isib.arpa, info-cpm@amsaa.arpa Cc: clements@CCQ.BBN.COM Help! I have almost all the pieces but I'm not quite there. I'm trying to get my IBM PC to read and write 8" CP/M format disks. Hence this posting to both cpm and ibmpc lists. ... The most versitile program I have seen is "Xenocopy PC" from Fred Cisim at Xenosoft, 1454 Sixth St, Berkeley, CA 94710, Phone (415) 525-3113. This product supports 5 1/4 (40 & 80 track), 8in, and 3 1/2in drives if you have the appropriate hardware. I do not know if can handle your controller or not. But it might be worth a phone call to find out. Program price is under a hundred dollars. Bill Wells