Re: R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-08 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, "Enrico email.it" wrote: So this for to read 1st face A: BEGIN MUP1 Mupid Seite 1 - SSSD 96 tpi 5.25" [...] And this for to read the other side B: BEGIN MUP2 Mupid Seite 2 - SSSD 96 tpi 5.25" [...] Absolutely correct :-) Christian

Re: R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chuck Guzis > Perhaps my mistake with 22Disk was not putting a line in that said "Me > fecit Carolus Guzis Anno MCMLXXXVII" or some such. Love the Michaelangelo reference. I'm curious as to how many others on the list got it. (It's carved into the strap on the Pieta. Apparentl

Re: R: R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-06 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, Enrico email.it via cctalk wrote: First of all I would like to thank you all for every suggestion that comes from so much experience. I only know my Ferguson bigboard 1 pretty well The z80 based machine was called GENERAL PROCESSOR Model T year 1981. You can see it here: https

R: R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-06 Thread Enrico email.it via cctalk
on the second / B side of the disk.! " Enrico -Messaggio originale- Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di Fred Cisin via cctalk Inviato: venerdì 6 novembre 2020 20:41 A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Oggetto: Re: R: Floppy disk: one drive per fa

Re: R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-06 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 11/6/20 11:41 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Yes, we're all bozos on this bus.  ("Firesign Theater" fourth album) > But, when it comes to disk formats, > none of the rest of us bozos can compare to Chuck. I can claim size 13 feet, so I'm pretty much on the way to being a real Bozo. Perhap

Re: R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-06 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, Enrico email.it via cctalk wrote: We are trying to read some floppy disk used on a 1981 Italian Z80 machine with CP / M. We saved an image with IMD and we know that the geometry of face A is IBM 3740 26x128x77 tracks. By inserting this data into the 22DISK definition file w

R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-06 Thread Enrico email.it via cctalk
So this for to read 1st face A: BEGIN MUP1 Mupid Seite 1 - SSSD 96 tpi 5.25" DENSITY FM ,LOW CYLINDERS 80 SIDES 1 SECTORS 10,256 SIDE1 0 0,2,4,6,8,1,3,5,7,9 BSH 4 BLM 15 EXM 1 DSM 96 DRM 127 AL0 0C0H AL1 0 OFS 3 END And this for to read the other side B: BEGIN MUP2 Mupid Seite 2 - SSSD 96 tpi

Re: R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-06 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
To elaborate on what I said earlier, consider the following set of definitions for the CPC-6128 as marketed by Schneider: BEGIN SCH1 Schneider CPC 6128 Side 1 - DSDD 5.25" DENSITY MFM, LOW CYLINDERS 40 SIDES 1 SECTORS 9,512 SIDE1 0 193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201 BSH 3 BLM 7 EXM 0 DSM 180 DRM

R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-05 Thread Enrico email.it via cctalk
About 5,25" diskettes it seems that its geometry could be based on 128byte for sector so using FM recording way and 40 tracks for side it could have 18 sectors for track. If I try to format in this way a disk with 22disk program I instead get 16 sectors for track. Having doubt on this we gone back