> A fellow has made up a nice adapter to read and write Commodore disks on > a PC via USB using a 1541 drive. > > The thing that jumped out at me is that this is a 5 1/4" drive that > reads and writes via USB. Anyone want to comment on whether the > floppies it accesses would be useful other than on the C64? > Could one do say 360K floppies via this hardware for other than the > Commodore? At least part of the work is done to do more than just > archival like Catweasel, et. al. do, in that it can also write.
The X*1541 cables (this would be an xum1541) still talk to the drives at a relatively high level, since the 1541/71/81 family are all intelligent peripherals. So: For the 1541, which is strictly Commodore GCR, no. For the 1571, which can do a variety of MFM formats, maybe, but I'm not aware that OpenCBM supports that. On the other hand, since it's MFM, you could easily just use something else. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Diamonds are forever. ------------------------------------------------------